Honey Ride of the Dead

Verse 1

Beneath the cold

Soil speaks

My eyes sealed shut by shadow and grain

I stir in black

One hand—or bone—breaks breathless from below

One word

Memory

Soft as a root

Shivers in marrow, slow

Lightless soil, weight around my ribs

Dream flickers, an earthen hymn

Stones and silence shift beneath my tongue

Chorus

Awake, awake—earth gives

I rot alive, mind trembling still

Awake, awake—soil breathes

No end to feeling

No end to falling

Post-Chorus

Honey soaking in, honey soaking in

Verse 2

Fingers fracture, gnawed by moss

Green climbs my veins

I feel the moss, marrow in sleep

Yet I—still—dream

Drip of time, wild insects tunnel through

Body forgotten by the sun, swarmed by roots

I listen, slow—listen, slow

Whisper, whisper, all I know

Chorus

Awake, awake—this life persists

Earth in my chest, dissolving chill

Awake, awake—bones recall

Every sorrow, every sound

Post-Chorus

Honey soaking in, honey soaking in

Let it in, let it in

Bridge

And the hymn—of flesh, of bone

Sing the circle—sing the stone

All returns, all returns

Down in the ground

Verse 3

I crawl through mind, burrowed blind

Worms in thought, time stuck in slime

Dripping slow, each breath—unending drip

Awareness expands, lantern-lit

Still I float, bright in rot

Spirit alone, flesh forgot

Anaphora: Alone in soil

Alone with flame

Alone with sense

Chorus

Awake, awake—let me remain

Rotting sacred, shadows in vein

Awake, awake—ride this line

Honey and bone

Forever entwined

Outro

Honey ride—of the dead

Sing with me all those left

Honey ride—of the dead

Post-Chorus

Honey soaking in, honey soaking in

All one, all alive

All alive