++Ash prog rock, neofolk, chamber folk,

Intro

Mm

Mm-hmm

Oh-oh

Verse 1

The birches bend like bishops at a burial

Moss keeps every name it was never told

Old oaks mutter riddles in a dialect of rot

I kneel at the root where the vows went cold

Pre-Chorus

Someone carved a promise in the bark

Someone fed the hollow something sweet

The hounds won't cross the boundary of the dark

And the stones remember feet

Chorus

The woods are cursed and I am sworn

To walk the crooked acreage till dawn

The woods are cursed and I belong

To every crooked acreage till dawn

Verse 2

A lantern swings above the thorns

Ferns unclench like fingers letting go

The elders left a debt of salt and antler horns

And a hush beneath the snow

Pre-Chorus

Now the skyline hums a different hymn

Towers blink their fever in the fog

I carry both the ash and the brim

Half a hermit and half a cog

Chorus

The woods are cursed and I am sworn

To walk the crooked acreage till dawn

The woods are cursed and I belong

To every crooked acreage till dawn

Bridge

Between the bough and the buzzing wire

I am neither beast nor spire

I am neither beast nor spire

Chorus

The woods are cursed and I am sworn

To walk the crooked acreage till dawn

The woods are cursed and I belong

To every crooked acreage till dawn

The woods are cursed

The woods are cursed

The woods are cursed and I am sworn