Cocoon (dark country, folk) Lyrics

Got rich off chitering things

Now he pulls the puppet strings

Found them in the hollow ground

Where chittering songs abound

Our Queen's voice, our golden crown

Till unseen hands pulled her down

Crawling deeper, sweetly deeper (Through the night)

Mother, breeder, soul-deceiver (Not alright)

Watch her change and watch her growing

Chitin-bound and weeping low

Through the glass her changes show

"Help me, brothers"—truth we know

But still we watched and let her go

Splitting wide and screaming "No!"

(While the children grow below)

Human heart in chitin cage

(As His whispers turn to rage)

"Perfect vessel, perfect host!"

(While her soul becomes a ghost)

"Queen of all that crawls and breeds"

(While her human heart still bleeds)

Every night her voice remains

Through guilt that drives us insane

"Why'd you leave?"—the question stains

While His dark purpose reigns

Crawling deeper, sweetly deeper (Through the night)

Mother, breeder, soul-deceiver (Not alright)

Ooh, watch her change and watch her growing

Never knowing, never knowing, never knowing

What we've done, what we've done, what we've done!