Verse 1 (Before the Rite) All day I keep my distance, Say less than I should say. Don’t touch. Don’t linger. Don’t give myself away. The land is already stirring, I feel it under skin. If you stay inside, you’ll be safe. If I don’t explain, you won’t step in. That’s the lie I tell myself. ⸻ Pre-Chorus (The Rule) Calanmai isn’t a choice, It’s a door that opens wide. And if you’re not there to see what I become, Then maybe I can keep you alive. ⸻ Chorus (Want, Resisted) I want you. I don’t want to. The fire keeps reaching for your shape, your scent, your warmth. I turn away. I harden my hands. But the land remembers what I’m trying to forget. ⸻ Verse 2 (Searching) Night splits open. Drums in my veins. Every step pulls harder— not to the crowd, but to your name. I feel you everywhere— stone and air and skin. The magic tells me to hunt, but not what I’m hunting. ⸻ Pre-Chorus 2 (Failure) Your scent shouldn’t be here. That’s wrong. That’s dangerous. That means I failed. ⸻ Chorus 2 (Misplaced Hunger) I want you. I can’t have you. So I give the fire what it demands. I let it take someone else, out of my hands. Bodies blur. Time breaks through. When it’s over— it still isn’t you. ⸻ Verse 3 (After the Rite) The magic loosens. The night exhales. I’m burned through and still aflame. And all I can think is— you shouldn’t be here. ⸻ Bridge (Panic) Your scent is everywhere. That means others caught it too. That means the night knows your name, and the dark knows you. I tear through halls I don’t remember walking, because fear cuts faster than fire, and I’m already running. Where are you? ⸻ Final Chorus (Finding Her) There— in the quiet. In the wrong place. Relief hits harder than hunger. The magic surges— recognition. Mine. “I would have been gentle with you.” I mean it. That’s the curse. ⸻ Outro (The Bite / Aftermath) My mouth finds your throat before my mind can stop— fire sealing fire. This isn’t choice. This isn’t grace. This is the land taking what it claims. I pull away. I leave. Because if I stay, the fire will take more than I can live with.
