Wood of Rog

Lyrics

Fogbound Grove (Atmospheric black metal – mid-tempo, hypnotic drum patterns, layered melodic tremolo riffs, cold keyboards, and distant folk-tinged leads. Female vocals: harsh, spectral screams that sometimes open into mournful, clean passages.) I. Through the silver veil of morning breath The ancient trunks stand mute and tall Roots drink deep the cold, wet earth While mist coils low around them all Branches claw the pale, drowned light A cathedral without end or door Each step sinks soft in rotting leaves Where time itself has walked before II. The fog is thick with memory Of winters that refused to die Of fires that never fully burned Of names the trees still keep inside A raven’s wing cuts through the grey Then vanishes without a sound The woods do not forgive the lost They only take what they have found Chorus Walk deeper still into the haze Where sunlight dies and shadows breed The woods on this fog-laden day Will plant their silence in your blood And claim the breath you leave behind III. Moss softens every fallen stone Ferns unfurl like green despair The path dissolves beneath the mist Until there is no path to spare Your heartbeat slows to match the drip Of water from a leaf’s sharp edge The forest sings in tongues of rain And binds you with its living hedge Bridge (slower, more melodic – clean female vocals over swelling strings and distant choirs) I am the dew that never dries I am the bark that drinks the night I am the fog that fills your eyes Until the world is only white Final Chorus / Outro Walk deeper still into the haze Where sunlight dies and shadows breed The woods on this fog-laden day Have closed their arms around your name And you will never leave the same (Fade on repeating melodic motif, fading into pure ambient fog and distant wind through the trees.)