🌙 Raven Creek: “Morrow Knows the Way”

[INSTRUMENTAL INTRO] [Low acoustic fingerpicking, distant haunting fiddle, soft slide guitar, desert wind] [VERSE 1] First night you watched beyond the flame Two amber eyes without a name No bark, no cry, no begging sound Just black paws resting on the ground I left some water by the stone By morning light, you both were gone But when the western sky turned red Those amber eyes were back again [VERSE 2] Three nights you waited past the fire Never closer, never tired So I looked up and finally said “You gonna stare, or stay instead?” You crossed the line the fire drew Like somehow you already knew Laid down your head beside my boots And that was all we had to prove [CHORUS] Morrow knows the way When the stars forget to shine Through the dust and through the dark He walks three steps ahead of mine Morrow knows the way Where no road should remain And when the night says turn around He leads me on again [INSTRUMENTAL BREAK] [Dark fiddle solo, answered by slide guitar, low upright bass, slow tribal floor tom] [VERSE 3] The storm came down without a moon Buried every trail too soon I couldn't tell the east from west But Morrow never second-guessed He stopped where nothing should have been An old road buried underneath Then turned those amber eyes to me And walked where I could barely see [BRIDGE – SPOKEN] I don't know where you came from. I don't know what you hear out there. But tonight... I'm following you. [FINAL CHORUS] Morrow knows the way Past the places maps forgot Through a town the years abandoned To a house that time could not Morrow knows the way And he stops outside the door There's something waiting in the dark... That has been waiting long before. [OUTRO] [One low fiddle note, wind, distant collar movement] Good boy, Morrow. Now what did you bring me to?