Scent of a Dragon

[Experimental Instrumental Intro] (Sub-bass rumble slowly rising Glitching electronic pulses stuttering left and right Reversed piano fragments echoing in space Low contrabass drone vibrating beneath everything Metallic impacts (slow, irregular) Pipe organ chord swelling darkly Tremolo violin tension note) [Verse 1] Before the temples split the sky Before the first man learned to pray There crawled a horror in the dark That night itself could not contain Beneath the bones of buried hills Where rotting forests turned to dust The earth began to choke and groan As something ancient clawed for blood [Pre-Chorus] Drums went silent… throats ran dry When the mountains learned to cry Torches trembled in the wind As the earth split deep within Shadows stretched across the plain Carrying the scent of pain Every heart began to know Something vast had stirred below. [Chorus] KRAXIS… the killer awake KRAXIS… the world begins to break Eyes like fires burning wide Graves unsealing at his stride Run While the black sky bleeds Run While the earth recedes When his shadow splits the land No god alive will dare to stand [Interlude] [Verse 2] Villages vanished in the night Doors ripped open, bodies gone Fields lay crushed like broken bone Where the monster treaded on Warriors came with steel and fire Kings with banners soaked in pride But courage rotted in their lungs When they saw what walked outside [Pre-Chorus] Every prayer turned into screams When they woke from dying dreams Temple bells began to crack As the darkness answered back Faith collapsed like brittle stone When they faced the beast alone And the night itself seemed wrong Like the world would not last long. [Chorus] KRAXIS… the beast awake KRAXIS… the world begins to break Eyes like fires burning wide Graves unsealing at his stride Run While the black sky bleeds Run While the earth recedes When his shadow splits the land No god alive will dare to stand [Bridge] (slow, crushing) Mountains buckle… rivers flee The sky itself refuses me But still he climbs from choking stone To claim a world that was not his own He is hunger He is night He is the end of breath and light He is death He is might He is fires set alight [Breakdown - Spoken Vocals] STEP…............. THE EARTH SPLITS WIDE STEP…............ THE DEAD INSIDE STEP…........... THE FORESTS FALL STEP…........... THE END OF ALL [Final Chorus] (Violent) KRAXIS… the ancient rotting king KRAXIS… the grave of everything Cities shatter in his wake Oceans tremble, heavens shake Run While the daylight dies Run While creation cries When the final mountains crack Nothing living’s coming back [Outro] (Sinister) If the ground beneath you moves… If the sky begins to dim… If the forests fall silent all at once… RUN..... Do not look toward the mountains. Because something vast… Something starving… Something older than the world… Is roaming still [Instrumental]