[INTRO] (distant pan flute, breathy, almost off-key • deep tribal drum begins like a slow heart • forest ambience, insects, low bass swell) (spoken, whispered, close to the ear — staggered, overlapping) They said: Don’t follow the beat. They said: Don’t move your feet. They said: Don’t drink too much. They said: Don’t let them touch. (pan flute repeats a short, seductive motif — drums grow one notch louder) ⸻ [VERSE 1 – THE CALL] (male voice, low, restrained, half-spoken • minimal drums • bass barely breathing) I followed the sound through the twisted trees, bare feet in mud, warm wine on my teeth. Masks in the dark, eyes burning bright, they smiled like they knew I’d stay the night. The ground was breathing, the air was thick, laughter broke loose like a dangerous trick. Someone whispered my name like a spell I forgot, and the forest leaned in — and I did not stop. ⸻ [PRE-CHORUS – THRESHOLD] (drums tighten • bass becomes physical • pan flute circles faster) They said, “Let go” — not softly, not kind, “Leave your order, leave your mind.” Hands on my shoulders, wine on my tongue, every rule I knew was already undone. ⸻ [CHORUS – INVOCATION] (full drums • hypnotic chant • voice opens, melodic but ritualistic) Dionysos — take the crown from my head Dionysos — pour me into the red In the drum, in the wine, in the heat that I choose I forget who I was — I remember you (chant repeats, last line echoed by layered voices) ⸻ [VERSE 2 – POSSESSION BEGINS] (rhythm steady, trance-like • satyr laughter faint in background) Satyrs dancing, teeth and skin, hoofbeats pounding what’s left within. Women turning like smoke and flame, no more faces, no more names. Flutes cut sharp like breath on glass, time dissolves — no future, no past. I tried to stand, the earth pulled me down, I laughed too loud as I lost the ground. ⸻ [PRE-CHORUS 2 – LOSS OF SELF] (drums heavier • bass pulses low and sexual) No king, no law, no fixed design, only rhythm, sweat, and wine. I felt myself start to tear apart — not flesh, not bone — but the shape of my heart. ⸻ [CHORUS – DEEPER] (bigger, dirtier, more bodies • chant stronger) Dionysos — break the line I defend Dionysos — let the animal in In the drum, in the wine, in the truth I abuse I forget who I was — I remember you ⸻ [BRIDGE – THE DARK GOD] (music drops suddenly • pan flute distorted • whispered voices pan left/right) (half-whispered, unsettling) They say you were torn… They say you were born… again. (drum resumes, slower but massive) Blood on his face, horns in his mane, a god who unmakes you to stitch you again. Not joy, but the debt that pleasure commands, ecstasy tearing with merciless hands. (brief silence — one breath) ⸻ [FINAL CHORUS – ECSTASY] (explosive but controlled • full ritual energy • never screaming) Dionysos — I give up my name Dionysos — pleasure and flame In the drum, in the wine, in the loss I choose I am no longer mine — I am you (chant loops once more, voices layered, pan flute soaring) ⸻ [OUTRO – NO RESOLUTION] (drums fade one by one • pan flute alone • bass hum remains) (soft, breathy) When the sun returns, they’ll call it madness, they’ll name it excess, they’ll dress it in sadness. (pause) But deep in the forest, beyond reason and time, the drums still remember, their breath still aligns. (final low drum hit • tape hiss / forest sound fades)
