Children of the Pleistocene

[Intro -- orchestral, building] [Verse 1] Ten thousand years of silence, Beneath the permafrost they slept. We woke them with our hubris, And promises we have not kept. A stranger at the access door, A badge that does not match the name. The mammoths are not the only ones Who wander where they should not came. [Pre-Chorus] One word from a trusted face. One link, one lapse, one open gate. The cold does not protect us here. The threat walks in before it's late. [Chorus -- Floor Jansen energy, full orchestra] Children of the Pleistocene, We brought back what the ice had kept. But what we let inside our walls Is older, darker, and adept. Report the strange. Refuse the rush. Verify before you trust. The wolves that learned to wear a coat Will find us, if we must. [Verse 2] A researcher from some far network, A vendor with a sense of need. Authority, a deadline's pressure, Cialdini plants his careful seed. The protocols are not your prison, They are the tusk that holds the line. Between the station and the silence, Between the mammoth and the mine. [Pre-Chorus] One word from a trusted face. One link, one lapse, one open gate. The cold does not protect us here. The threat walks in before it's late. [Chorus] [Bridge -- quiet, almost spoken, building] Three times the fence has failed us. Three times the human was the door. Not malice every instance, But never asking anymore. Ask. Pause. Verify. The mammoth waited ten millennia. The attacker waited for you. [Final Chorus -- all stops out, key modulation up] [Outro -- orchestral reprise, fading into wind sounds and distant mammoth calls]