Morana

[INTRO – VOID, REVERSED, WHISPERS, NO RHYTHM] (massive space, distant, layered, unsynced) morana… mora… na… na… idi… idi… pod led… sub nive… pod snegom… mora—mora—mora— (breath pulses emerge slowly) [VERSE I – SPARSE PERCUSSION, LOW DRONES] The river is sleeping with teeth of glass It swallows the sun, lets the blackness pass Bone-white branches claw at the sky Every prayer here learns how to die Footsteps circle the effigy frame Straw-bound queen with a borrowed name We dress her in silence, in thread and frost Count every heartbeat the summer lost [SWARM CHOIR I – NON-HARMONIC, LAYERED, STAGGERED ENTRIES] Morana… Morana… Morana… na… na… Pod snegom spi… spi… spi… Černa mati… mati… mati… Morana… krv… krv… krv… Spi pod ledom… spi… spi… (overlapping, no unison, chaotic stereo spread) [PRE-CHORUS – BUILD, LOW TOMS ENTER] Do you feel her under the ground? Breathing slow without a sound She is not gone, she is not slain She is the hunger inside the vein [CHORUS – FULL DRUMS, SWARM ACTIVE, VIOLIN LEAD] Burn her — she does not burn Drown her — she will return Break her — she wears the wound Winter is womb and tomb Call her — she answers cold Name her — the earth takes hold You cannot end what the dark has grown Morana rises from bone to bone [VERSE II – DENSER RHYTHM, VIOLIN SHADOWING VOCAL] Ash in the wind, but the ash still breathes Cracks in the ice form a lattice of teeth Children of thaw with their fragile cries Do not see how the green world lies We threw her down to the starving stream Watched her unravel like a fever dream But something moved in the underflow Something ancient refused to go [SWARM CHOIR II – AGGRESSIVE, FRACTURED, MULTI-LAYER] Morana veshcha! veshcha! veshcha! Večna! Večna! Večna! Krov pod nogami — krov! krov! Černa zima — zima — zima — IA NA KROV — IA NA LED SERA VO NOCI — VO NOCI MOR — MOR — MORANA (stuttering, reversed layers, glitch fragments) [CHORUS – MAX DENSITY, FULL SPECTRUM] Burn her — she does not burn Drown her — she will return Break her — she wears the wound Winter is womb and tomb Call her — she answers cold Name her — the earth takes hold You cannot end what the dark has grown Morana rises from bone to bone [BREAKDOWN – NO MELODY, PERCUSSION ONLY, POLYRHYTHMIC] STOMP — STOMP — STOMP RATTLE — BONE — SKIN ha — kha — ha — kha sshh — tsk — ssk — kha VE — NA — KROV — NA — VE — NA LED — LED — POD — LED IA — IA — MOR — ANA (staggered layers, increasing density, ritual escalation) [REBUILD – GLITCH, WHISPERS, VIOLIN RETURNS DISTORTED] ona ne ushla… zima v tebe… morana… morana… morana… [FINAL CHORUS – OVERWHELMING, SWARM DOMINANCE] She was the fire inside the freeze She was the rot beneath the trees She was the silence taught to scream She was the fracture in the dream Burn her — she crowns the flame Drown her — she drinks the name Break her — she splits the sky Nothing that lives can truly die Call her — she answers all Name her — and kingdoms fall You are the vessel, the seed, the throne Morana rises — you are her bone [OUTRO – COLLAPSE, SWARM → SINGLE POINT] MoranaMoranaMoranaMorana Večna — večna — večna Pod snegom spi — spi — spi (single voice, dry, intimate) ya zdes… (silence)