Verse 1 [Male 1] The ritual shatters, the Blight bursts free Vines like teeth tear through the company Screams cut short as the green turns red I stand frozen while my friends are fed [Switch to Female 1] Their eyes find mine in that final blink Before the hunger swallows them whole, I think Chorus [Male 1 with layered harmonies] I twist the strings into something wrong A discord born from the monster’s own song It hesitates, confused by its own sound I buy one breath, one desperate round Verse 2 [Male 1] The root-tunnel yawns, I dive without grace The earth closes in, I crawl through the space The Blight’s roar fades as I push through the dirt Alive but broken, covered in hurt [Switch to Female 1] The guilt weighs heavy like the vines I fled I left them behind, I chose to live instead Bridge [Male 1] The lute still hums with that twisted refrain The price of survival, the echo of pain I emerge to moonlight, alone once more The forest took them, but I slipped the door [Switch to Female 1] The silence after is louder than the fight I carry their voices into the night Chorus [Male 1 with all voices swelling] I twist the strings into something wrong A discord born from the monster’s own song It bought my breath, but stole their last cry I live with the silence beneath this sky
