“By Blood, I Cry”

“By Blood, I Cry” Verse 1 I am not called — I am claimed By marrow, by oath, by name Your blood remembers what you forgot I rise where the kinship rots Stone knows me. Hearth knows me. Your mother’s bones already told me. I come for the line, not the man For the root, not the branch When the family thins, I sing it true And the old dead lean in too Pre-Chorus I don’t cross seas, I don’t roam free I am bound where your blood will be Chorus By blood, I cry — by blood, you fall My voice walks the family wall I don’t scream for strangers’ graves I sing the names the lineage gave If you hear me, your house is marked One soul closer to the dark Verse 2 They fed me stories to dull the fear Painted me widow, mad with tears But I was crowned before their prayers With iron lungs and braided air I don’t mourn — I announce I don’t beg — I pronounce Each wail is a seal, old and sworn Another of yours is about to be torn Pre-Chorus Your fathers shake inside the ground When my breath turns toward your sound Chorus By blood, I cry — by blood, you fall My voice walks the family wall I don’t scream for strangers’ graves I sing the names the lineage gave If you hear me, your house is marked One soul closer to the dark Bridge I know the cradle I know the grave I know the names you never say I watched your line crawl out of mud I will watch it return to blood This is not chance This is not curse This is inheritance — rehearsed Break (Spoken / Chanted) Listen close That name was yours Final Chorus I am the wail that keeps the old law The sound that time will not withdraw No blade. No rope. No fight. Just breath that ends a bloodline night Kneel or stand — it’s all the same I sing for kin, and kin obey Outro When the echo fades from the hill I remain — loyal, still Not demon, ghost, nor grieving shade I am what your blood remembers When it’s time to be afraid