[Intro – distant lullaby, wind through branches, faint childlike hum] (whispered, almost innocent) I saw them smile… So I learned how… (soft choir) “Non nata… non terra…” (Not born… not of the earth…) ⸻ [Verse 1 – gentle, unsettling calm] I stood where children used to play Watched how they laughed, what they would say Learned how to blink, how to pretend Learned how to speak, how to be friend They held their mothers, warm and near I copied softly… year by year But something in me never stayed No root to hold, no place I made ⸻ [Pre-Chorus – tension creeping in] They grow… they change… they leave… But I remain… beneath… ⸻ [Chorus – haunting, then swelling into power] 🌿 I LEARNED YOUR SMILE, BUT NOT YOUR SOUL 🌿 A hollow voice, a borrowed role I speak the words, I play the part But nothing ever fills this heart 🌿 I WATCH, I WAIT, I STAY THE SAME 🌿 No mother’s arms, no whispered name The roots beneath refuse my call I am not meant to grow at all ⸻ [Verse 2 – more disturbing, realization creeping in] They changed their faces, grew and aged I stayed the same… the same… unchanged They stopped returning, one by one Their lives moved on… mine never begun I tried to cry the way they do Taught my eyes to break on cue But tears won’t fall for something hollow And I don’t know what I should follow ⸻ [Pre-Chorus – layered, fractured voices] They lived… they loved… they died… But I… never tried… ⸻ [Chorus – stronger, tragic clarity] 🌿 I LEARNED YOUR SMILE, BUT NOT YOUR SOUL 🌿 A perfect mask, an empty whole I stand where life once used to be But none of it belongs to me 🌿 I WATCH THE YEARS PASS THROUGH YOUR EYES 🌿 I mimic truth, I wear disguise But roots below still turn away And I am left… and I will stay ⸻ [Bridge – eerie, quiet, almost whispered confession] (childlike voice, distorted slightly) Was I forgotten… or never meant…? (pause… low choir rises) Why do I stay… when all else went…? ⸻ [Breakdown – slow, heavy, crushing realization] NO ROOT… NO NAME NO GROWTH… NO CHANGE NO LIFE TO CLAIM NO END… NO PAIN ⸻ [Final Chorus – full Wolves of Eve power, tragic] 🌿 I LEARNED YOUR SMILE, BUT NOT YOUR SOUL 🌿 And now I see what I can’t hold I am the echo of your kind A thing that lingers out of time 🌿 NO MOTHER CAME, NO EARTH BELOW 🌿 NO PLACE FOR ME TO REST OR GROW I am the child that never was… And never will be… because… ⸻ [Outro – lullaby returns, fading into wind] (soft, broken whisper) …am I… still here…?
