[Intro]

(Low, distorted bass hum)

(Rapid, tribal drum buildup)

[Verse 1]

Silver veins in the black mud

Iron pulse, taste of cold blood

You built a cage of glass and bone

The pines are coming for their throne

Shadows stretch like sharpened knives

Counting down your borrowed lives

[Chorus]

Deep in the throat of the hemlock shade

The debt is called, the price is paid

The fang of the thicket, the needle, the thorn

Tearing the veil where the silence was born

Welcome the hunger, welcome the rot

The forest remembers what you forgot

[Verse 2]

Concrete cracks under creeping moss

Calculate the total loss

Starlight dies on a jagged leaf

Prayer is short and time is brief

The canopy is closing in

To peel away your porcelain skin

[Chorus]

Deep in the throat of the hemlock shade

The debt is called, the price is paid

The fang of the thicket, the needle, the thorn

Tearing the veil where the silence was born

Welcome the hunger, welcome the rot

The forest remembers what you forgot

[Bridge]

(Heavy, slow breakdown)

Root and marrow

Bone and barrow

Dig it down

Wear the crown

The earth is eating

The heart is beating

FAST.

[Instrumental Solo]

(Fast, aggressive guitar shredding with wah-pedal mimicking animal screams)

[Chorus]

Deep in the throat of the hemlock shade

The debt is called, the price is paid

The fang of the thicket, the needle, the thorn

Tearing the veil where the silence was born

Welcome the hunger, welcome the rot

The forest remembers what you forgot

[Outro]

The green decay.

The green decay.

(Sudden silence)