Lyrics

[Intro – Spoken, over creaking wood and distant owl calls]

> Dead man breathes—ain’t right, but it’s written.
Bell don’t ring—it’s cracked, but it listens.
Law don’t sleep—she starves with her badge on.
The hush ain’t empty. It’s hungry.




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[Verse I – Dissonant tremolo, polyrhythm drums]
Lantern jaw, dried blood oath,
Crake crawls through the chalk and loam,
Mercy line sings like wire pulled tight,
Starvin’ on mint and countersigns.

Garden hears, the Well denies,
Pete speaks through three-knots, not his eyes.
Every breath a witness call—
Every silence wants to maul.


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[Pre-Chorus – Blast beat drop, vocals split between scream and chant]
Word-Fence hummin’ like a curse left open,
Moon-Quiet veils where the vows get broken,
Sheriff’s got ribs but no damn bread—
Still holds the hush so the town ain’t dead!


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[Chorus – Melodic, wide tremolo riff]
Three to speak, one to yield,
Seal the name in salt and field.
Grief runs hot, law runs lean—
Hold the hush or feed the machine.
Three to speak, one to yield—
Truth is just what won’t be healed.


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[Verse II – Slower, heavy groove, double-kick]
Pete’s will glitches the witness chain,
Dead weight bound but speakin’ again.
Preacher Snipe’s got a welt that weeps,
Calls the hush and forgets to sleep.

Sister Half-Face knits the veil,
One mint-fleck from goin’ pale.
Runt drops code in garden beds—
Seed of a spell where the silence spreads.


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[Bridge – Spoken again, low growl with slow distorted chime]

> You don’t eat, you verify.
You don’t cry, you testify.
You don’t sleep, you countersign.
You don’t live—you bind the line.




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[Breakdown – Downtuned, stuttering riff, tempo collapse]
HUSH-BLADE!
CRADLE OR KILL!
MERCY STARVED!
NOW WHO WRITES WILL?!


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[Final Chorus – Screamed with backing chant harmonies]
Three to speak, one to yield,
Name the dead or break the seal!
Rite by rite, the code is grown—
Write your oath into the stone!
Three to speak, one to yield—
Truth ain’t true until it’s repealed.


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[Outro – Solo over droning word-fence hum, fading into owl calls]