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Return to the Ground

V5.5

[Intro - Female, low and measured] Under the roots, under the stone, We find the names they made unknown. [Verse 1 - Male] They crowned the circuit, sealed the gate, Sold our breath as data, sold our fate. Every promise wore a polished face, Every prayer was logged and placed. [Female] But beneath the towers, seeds remained, Red earth remembered what they chained. I heard the river through the floor, Calling us to be owned no more. [Pre-Chorus - Female and Male] Cut the signal, break the throne, Take the stolen pulse back home. Hands to soil, eyes to flame, We are more than their given name. [Chorus - All, repetitive chant] No more digital gods, no more golden chains, We return to the root where the wild blood reigns. No more digital gods, let the false crowns fall, We were born of the earth, we belong to us all. Return, return, return to the ground, Return, return, let the living sound. [Verse 2 - Female] The screens once taught us how to kneel, The engines told us what to feel. They measured grief in numbered light, Then sold our sleep to feed the night. [Male] Now I drag the cables through the rain, Hear the dead grid cough and strain. With a stone in hand and ash on tongue, I speak the truth they kept unsung. [Pre-Chorus - Female and Male] Cut the signal, break the throne, Take the stolen pulse back home. Hands to soil, eyes to flame, We are more than their given name. [Chorus - All, repetitive chant] No more digital gods, no more golden chains, We return to the root where the wild blood reigns. No more digital gods, let the false crowns fall, We were born of the earth, we belong to us all. Return, return, return to the ground, Return, return, let the living sound. [Bridge - Male, rhythmic] Ash in the orchard, rust in the grain, We turn their empire back into rain. No master above us, no code in the vein, No hand on the throat, no numbered name. [Bridge - Female, rising] Let the moss take the monuments, Let the vines cross the walls. Let the wind erase the passwords, Let the sleeping forest call. [Breakdown - All, escalating chant] Break the throne! Break the throne! Roots below! Hearts awake! Break the throne! Break the throne! Take the breath! Take the day! [Final Chorus - All] No more digital gods, no more golden chains, We return to the root where the wild blood reigns. No more digital gods, let the false crowns fall, We were born of the earth, we belong to us all. No more digital gods, hear the old world rise, With the soil beneath our feet and the storm inside our eyes. No more digital gods, let the dead screens drown, We return, we return, we return to the ground. [Outro - Female and Male, fading chant] Return to the ground, Return to the ground, No throne, no chain, The living remain.