**[Verse 1]**
The tunnel breathed where no wind stirred,
A broken mark, a buried word,
Black sap ran through wounded stone,
And something listened there alone.
The singing bent around my blood,
The rock grew warm beneath my touch,
Then silence fell too sharp, too deep—
Like something underneath woke up from sleep.
**[Pre-Chorus]**
Ash in the vial, red on the hand,
Sent below to understand.
Honour or exile, none could say—
Only: go, and find the way.
**[Chorus]**
*Help me,*
Something cries beneath the stone.
*Help me,*
One voice lost inside another’s bones.
The forge burns bright, the dark runs deep,
The city watches while we sleep.
If the earth can bleed, if the dead can dream—
Tell me what that makes of me.
**[Verse 2]**
Forge-light burning, iron sky,
Unseen eyes as we passed by,
Bought our passage, paid our due,
Twelve went in where whispers grew.
Steel and potions, coin and trade,
A diamond sought but never gained,
Then thunder rolled across the square—
Two mouths screaming from one nightmare.
**[Chorus]**
*Help me,*
One head begged while one head raged.
*Help me,*
Web and thorn became the cage.
A body fell where briars grew,
A hand came off, a bolt went through.
The fountain ran beneath the scream—
Tell me what that makes of me.
**[Bridge]**
A whistle cuts the market air.
No questions now.
No standing there.
A rat in a pocket, blood on the ground,
Bootsteps vanish without a sound.
Leave the giant.
Leave the dead.
Take the road that leads ahead.
**[Final Chorus]**
*Help me,*
The words still follow where we go.
*Help me,*
From the city to the stone below.
The tunnel listened.
The giant knew.
Something broken is bleeding through.
And if the dark remembers me—
I’ll remember what I’ve seen.
**[Outro]**
Ash to earth.
Earth to flame.
The stone went silent—
But it knew my name.