[Verse 1] She walks where the heather bends Silver hair against the rain Stone remembers where she treads Mountain knows her ancient name She carries winter in her hands Cold as river, old as bone Every dying leaf she gathers Every lost thing leads her home [Pre-Chorus] Do not call her cruel Do not call her cold She has watched a thousand worlds Rise and turn to stone [Chorus] Cailleach, Cailleach Mother of the night Strip away the dying Leave me with the light Cailleach, Cailleach Wild beneath the moon What must fall will feed the earth What must live will bloom [Verse 2] She knows the names we buried She knows the wounds we hide She sees beneath the skin of us There is nowhere left to lie Her fingers touch the frozen ground And the ancient roots awake She does not promise gentle things She gives us what we need to break [Bridge] I heard her calling Across the mountain Through the wind Through the rain “You are not the things that broke you You are not your fear or shame Let the old skin fall behind you Come and walk the world again. [Final Chorus] Cailleach, Cailleach Mother of the night Carry all my ashes Turn them into light Cailleach, Cailleach Ancient, wild and true Winter holds the seed of spring And I will rise anew [Outro, whispered] She walks the mountain. She knows my name. The winter passes. I rise again.
