[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
