Call-and-response structure — WITCHES lowercase / DARK ONE ALL CAPS) [Intro – ambient wind + fire crackle] (whispers, distant drums) [spoken / females - airy whisper, soft breath close to mic] Ash on our tongues… blood in our bell. We call through the smoke where the condemned fell. Names carved in gallows, bones in the loam— Answer us, fire… call your children home. [spoken / MALE - low resonant voice, dark gravel tone] I COME FORTH… UNBIDDEN, UNHOLY, UNBOUND. I RISE FROM YOUR WHISPERS… I LIVE IN YOUR SOUND. YOU PRAYED FOR MERCY… I BRING YOU WRATH. THE HAND THAT HANGED YOU NOW PAVES MY PATH. [spoken / females - airy whisper, urgent chant rhythm] Bind the air with serpent thread, Breathe his mark through lips of dread. We are the daughters, unburied and sworn— The night is our covenant, sharpened and worn. [spoken MALE - deep commanding tone, close mic] I WALK BETWEEN YOUR SHADOWED HEARTS. I HEAR YOUR FURY— I TEAR APART. I AM THE FLAME BENEATH YOUR SKIN. THE DARK YOU WORSHIP— LET ME IN. [spoken / females - layered female voices, breathy, almost weeping] O Lord of Hollow, O Father of Flame, We bleed your sigil, we speak your name. From Salem’s soil to pyre’s remains— Awake… awaken… unchain our chains. [spoken / MALE - low demonic resonance, seductive slow tempo] I AM THE ONE THEY NAMED IN FEAR. THE DEVIL— THE DEMON— I AM HERE. YOUR CHAINS ARE MINE— YOUR BLOOD MY WINE. YOUR FLESH REMEMBERS… I RECLAIM WHAT’S MINE. [spoken - dual voices, overlapping chaos] [female] we are the choir of the hanged and scorned! [MALE] I AM YOUR FIRE— YOUR MASTER— YOUR STORM! [female] born of the rope— reborn in the storm! [MALE] IN FIRE I TRUST— IN NIGHT I REIGN. THE WORLD SHALL KNOW— MY BEAUTIFUL PAIN. [spoken - whisper duet fading to silence] [females] we did not burn… [MALE]you became the flame.
