The Wolf who cried Girl

[Verse 1] There's a girl in the forest Where the black roots grow Walking through the moonlight Where no child should go Every night I see her Every night the same White dress in the darkness Never speaks my name I follow from a distance Through the silver pine She leaves no broken branches Leaves no trace behind And when I try to tell them What waits beyond the hill The hunters only laugh at me The village stays asleep [Chorus] There's a girl in the forest There's a girl in the trees There's a girl in the moonlight And she's looking back at me I cried girl I cried girl But nobody believes I cried girl I cried girl Now she's walking through their dreams [Verse 2] The baker lost his daughter The blacksmith lost his son The names keep disappearing Like they never were anyone Yet every night she wanders Through the fog and through the leaves The same small silent figure Where the dead air seems to breathe I watched her cross the river Without rippling the water I watched the crows bow down to her Like servants to a daughter And something in the darkness Whispered softly through the trees "The wolf is not the danger... The wolf is what she sees." [Chorus] There's a girl in the forest There's a girl in the trees There's a girl in the moonlight And she's looking back at me I cried girl I cried girl But nobody believes I cried girl I cried girl Now she's walking through their dreams [Bridge] The church bells stopped ringing The dogs refuse to bark Children wake up screaming At footsteps in the dark The hunters took their rifles And followed where she led By morning all that remained Were footprints ending dead [Outro] Now the village stands empty And the forest softly sways The moon still lights the pathway Where she drifts from grave to grave And somewhere in the silence Beneath the frozen trees A lonely wolf is howling For the ones who wouldn't believe I cried girl... I cried girl... But nobody believed...