[Verse 1] They come at dawn Through broken fern Past silent water Waiting to burn Torchlight shaking On blackened glass Shadows moving As they pass Voices hardened Names they throw Calling something They don’t know [Pre-Chorus] Lake lies watching Cold and wide Forest breathing At its side [Chorus] Dark horse at the waterline Still as depth, unreadable No fear left in bone or breath Something old, inevitable Step by step, the line is drawn No more running, no more flight What they came to drag from dark Rises now into their sight [Verse 2] First one slipping Loses ground Water answers Without a sound Torch falls hissing In the black Ripples spreading No way back Not blind fury Not attack Just the pull They can’t fight back [Pre-Chorus] Surface shifting Too alive No one certain Who survives [Chorus] Dark horse moving through their line Faster than their fear can name Hands that came with rope and fire Leave with nothing but their shame No more hunters, only flight Through the trees they disappear What they named as cursed and wild Never needed them near [Bridge] Silence after Water still Ashes drifting Past the hill You step closer Unafraid Where the line began to fade Hand to fur Cold, then warm Like the edge Of shifting form [Final Chorus] Dark horse under open sky No more shadow left to chase What was feared now stands beside Neither gone nor in one place Step by step, a different path Not alone and not confined Lake and forest, bound as one Leaving nothing clear defined [Outro] Water quiet Breath undone Hooves to footsteps Two made one Eyes still holding Depth and flame Step too close It feels the same
