[Instrumental] [Verse 1] They said: 'It is darkness, it is wrong, it is unclean.' They named the earth 'fear' and called the living world 'a lie'. They stole the names and faces; they painted the old ways as monstrous. What had been a path became a warning; what had once fed us was cast aside. [Instrumental] [Pre-chorus] Not everything before you was dark or wild. Some things were simply too close to life, too close to death, too close to the earth you no longer wished to stand upon. [Instrumental] [Chorus] When the gods turned into demons, more than faith was lost. The child was thrown out with the bathwater, and it was called salvation; it was called guilt. It wasn't just names we lost; we lost the bond — that all that moves is living and that we are part of it, not as rulers or something above, but as members of the circle. [Instrumental] [Verse 2] Taranis was reduced to thunder; no longer the wheel of time or law. Ogma became a brute force of words, no longer an oath or a binding truth. Crom Cruach was turned to terror, a monster forged to rule by fear. Yet no one ever asked what would happen when fear was not understood but simply burned away. [Instrumental] [Pre-Chorus 2] What is not integrated returns distorted. What is cast into exile speaks louder from the shadows than it ever did within the circle. [Instrumental] [Chorus (varied)] When the earth became an object and the sky became a judge, humanity lost its listening, lost its rhythm, lost its pulse. Not because the new was wrong, but because we forgot what once held us upright when we knew that we grow as trees grow and die as they do. [Instrumental] [Bridge (spoken/chant)] Not everything ancient was good. But much of it was true. Not everything had to be kept. But nothing had to be destroyed. [Instrumental] [Final chorus] Perhaps we do not need to go back, but to go deeper. Beneath the images, beneath the guilt, beneath the fear. To the place where movement is... [© SongSilke 2025 All Rights Reserved | Unauthorized use, reproduction, remixing, adaptation, or distribution of this work without explicit written permission is strictly prohibited and will be enforced under applicable copyright laws.]
