EVERYTHING STOPPED [Intro] I know these woods. Every sound. [Verse 1] Birds claim the morning before the light. Insects take over the dark. The wind has a habit of touching one branch. The creek keeps cutting through rock. Deer move low through the hollow. Leaves give way under their feet. I've heard it all a thousand nights. Then— nothing. [Pre-Chorus] No wings. No call. Even the leaves went still. [Chorus] I didn't hear you coming. I heard everything— stop. No birds in the branches. No feet in the brush. No warning. I didn't hear you coming. But I know these woods. And nothing here goes quiet for nothing. [Verse 2] Wind moves east along the treeline. Water keeps pulling downstream. Something small runs under the bracken, too light to trouble me. Then one bird leaves. Another follows. The insects quit. And the dark gets bigger. [Pre-Chorus] No wings. No call. Not even the leaves move now. [Chorus] I didn't hear you coming. I heard everything— stop. No birds in the branches. No feet in the brush. No warning. I didn't hear you coming. But I know these woods. And nothing here goes quiet for nothing. [Bridge] That's how you learn what's dangerous. Not by the sound it makes. By the things that hear it first. [Break] I didn't hear you. I heard them. Stop. [Final Chorus] I didn't hear you coming. I heard everything— stop. Then one step. Not deer. Not wind. Another step. Closer. I know these woods. I know those steps. You're here now. [Outro] One step. Then nothing.
