【Intro｜Whispered Invocation】 (Breathy, earthlike, fog-in-mouth whisper. Slow, sacred. Like a god waking) Our ribs are hollow. Our skin is stretched. Make us the drum. Beat us with light. We do not conquer — We sing the earth alive. 【Verse 1｜Dawn Steps】 (Deep rhythm, like slow feet marching. Dust, wind, soul.) Bare feet mark the dust with old names. Our shadows stretch like spears. Bone cracks beneath rising suns. The gods do not speak — But they listen. 【Chorus｜Call and Response】 (Layered voices. Each call has a response. Clapping, stomps.) (CALL) We are the drum! (Boom-boom!) (RESP) We are the drum! (Echo) (CALL) Skin and bone, strike the silent stone! (RESP) Strike the stone! (CALL) Kilimanjaro! Echo our roar! (ALL) Let silence burn! Let gods awaken! 【Verse 2｜Midday Spirits】 (Heat and sweat. Inner fire.) Cattle bells shimmer in heat. Red cloth flutters like flame. Our hands do not hold spears — They strike our chests. It is not pain. It is memory with teeth. 【Bridge｜Sacred Invocation】 (Aged male voice. Spoken in Maa language. Wind + low hum + foot stomps begin) (SPOKEN) Enkai narok oolkiteng’ — entoki sidai pee ng’ole oshi. (O great god of the cattle — bless us with light and voice.) (Drums deepen. Chant builds.) Knees sink into sacred dust. Lips crack like riverbeds. Still we burn. Still we sing. The mountain listens. 【Final Chorus｜Ritual Explosion】 (Shouted, trance-like. Voices layered. Like fire.) We are the drum! We are the fire! Beat our names into the wind! The mountain bleeds light — Our song is carved into stone. We will not vanish. We are the echo that echoes itself. (CHANT – fade out slowly) We. Are. The. Drum. We. Are. The. Drum. We. Are. The. Drum. 【Outro｜Breath and Wind】 (Breathy, ghost-like. Wind + faint chanting.) Leaving footprints made of breath? Or just walking — forever singing into the mouth of a silent god?
