The Felling of the Sacred Tree by Vast Souls Lyrics

Thou sleep in a tomb of ruin
Thy bones exposed to the sun
Beneath pillars of ash
Dancing in the shadows
Erupting empyreal light

They knew not the extent of thy power
Of the magic dormant within
Thy corroded, pestilent heart
Thou cursed the Earth that killed thee
With thy dying breath…

There was a forest of light
Whose leaves glistened with gold
There once was hope
Emanating from a pure soul
Doomed to be corrupted
As all pure things are…

Drown us all in hatred...
Their druidic chants could not retrieve
The stars you tore from the heavens…

Cloaked in the shadow of the glade
Myriad roots converge to form bark
From beneath the soil…

Shelter…
Erupting from a seed
Shelter…
Sacred and inviolate

O dryad
Show them no mercy
They defiled you, raped you
Claimed your children as theirs
They killed your kin
Built towers from their bones!

A sacred tree
Once buried
Burst forth and spread
Boughs across the skyline

Before time
Before light
The sacred tree
Now falling
O sprites
They call themselves oracles;
Bearers of a bright future
At the cost of our world

In their clairvoyance they succumbed
To the condescension in their hearts
They speak only the language of deceit
To keep their black future!
They slit the throat of druids
They cut the arteries of gods

O Sol, Sylvan, Dryad…
Stay not your rage
Stay not your hand

Countless voices
Petrified in wood
Ageless rage
From gentle souls
The slumbering god
Twisting in despair
Throwing cinders
Weeping molten light

May they not predict your wrath!
The land you claimed;
Sacred water
Ageless boughs
The vast sky
Now collapse upon you

The anger in these roots
Shall bind the hands of man
And the world will reclaim its silence...