About this song
In the deep woods of Innistrad, a man whistles for the wolves he calls brothers. But when the spellcasting stops and the woods fall silent, the man is gone, and only the hunger of the Ravager remains.
Lyrics
[Intro] [Verse 1] I light a fire at the edge of the trees And whistle for the wolves I know They come from where the moonlight bleeds And follow where my footprints go The pack and I — we hunt for bread We share the meat and stalk the dawn But every night I count my dead And wonder which were mine, which were drawn [Pre-Chorus] There's a silence in the woods When the spells stop being said That's the moment I am lost That's the moment I am dead [Chorus] When the wood goes quiet, I am gone The man becomes the marrow and the bone Wake me where the bodies lie in red And the moon will know me, and the pack will roam The alpha when I cannot speak The hunger when the prayer is overthrown Half a man inside the muzzle, half a beast inside the priest Bury me in the marrow of my home [Verse 2] The villages all hold their breath The mothers say the prayers they know But Avacyn is somewhere lost And nothing answers from below I wake up sometimes by the brook The taste of copper on my breath A scrap of cloth I half-mistook For something I had loved to death [Pre-Chorus] There's a silence in the woods When the spells stop being said That's the moment I am lost That's the moment I am dead [Chorus] [Bridge] There is a man inside the wolf And there is a wolf inside the man And every full and broken moon We hand the body back and forth I have whistled for my hounds I have been the hound that came I have called my brothers in And I have eaten them again [Final Chorus] When the wood goes quiet, I am gone The man becomes the marrow and the bone Wake me where the bodies lie in red And the moon will know me, and the pack will roam The alpha when I cannot speak The hunger when the prayer is overthrown Half a man inside the muzzle, half a beast inside the priest Bury me in the marrow of my own [Outro] Quiet now The fire's out Quiet now Until the howl
