The Damp Forest Lyrics

When the empty shell of a life now lost

Timbers to the earth in a shattering cataclysm

Is the vapor pierced with a cry of death

Or do the branches fall on senses of the deaf?

When the limbs are drenched in the dew of dawn

And buds and acorns wreak scents of ages past

Does the common man transcend the instinct

Or will he set a fire within the beating heart of life?

The damp forest cries in anguish

Waves of red lash at the branches

Dunes of august lacerate the bark

Machine of man reaps doom in its wake

An ocean upon land

Giver of life to the children

Burned at the stake

By those who it helped raise