HUMANS WON

Lyrics

[Verse 1 - sparse acoustic guitar strums, mournful pedal steel, low weary male vocals]
Down in the hollows where the cold winds moan,
We fought with fire 'gainst the human bone.
Claws in the moonlight, teeth in the fray,
But their silver words chased our shadows away.

[Chorus - swelling fiddle lament, slow-building banjo rolls, harmonized baritone ache]
Oh, the spell they cast, it buried us deep,
In the earth's black belly where the lost ones weep.
Monsters no more, just echoes and chains,
Humans wear the crown, and we're drowned in the rains.

[Verse 2 - hollow fingerpicked guitar, distant harmonica wail, gravelly whispered regrets]
Remember the battles on the blood-soaked plain,
Our roars like thunder, their fear like the rain.
But magic they summoned from some ancient rite,
Bound us in darkness, stole our last fight.

[Chorus - fuller string section swell, lonesome dobro slides, layered ghostly harmonies]
Oh, the spell they cast, it buried us deep,
In the earth's black belly where the lost ones weep.
Monsters no more, just echoes and chains,
Humans wear the crown, and we're drowned in the rains.

[Bridge - stripped-back upright bass pulse, fragile falsetto vocals, echoing reverb]
Now we crawl in the caverns, blind to the sun,
Whispers of freedom, but the spell ain't undone.
What were we dreamin' in those furious nights?
Just ghosts in the ground, haunted by light.

[Outro - fading acoustic picking, trailing steel guitar sighs, hushed ad-libbed moans]
Buried us deep... lost ones weep...
Drowned in the rains... forever we sleep.