Nocturne for a Broken Halo 破碎光环夜曲

Bare roots claw through the frozen ground

No green remains where the trees fell down

My footsteps break the crust of stone

No birds above no way back home

A leaden sky hangs over me

I hear the wind move through the dead trees

I cross the place where the forest died

And carry its ashes beneath my skin

Thorns wrap my bones the land is bare

I walk the dead wood no god is there

Ice in my blood but I still breathe

This empty wild is all that's left of me

Black roots twist beneath the clay

Through hollow trunks where the light decays

The frozen air tastes sharp as iron

I follow tracks that end in silence

Dead branches tear across my skin

The deeper I walk the more they draw me in

I rose from the earth where the fire had fed

On the names of the living and the bones of the dead

Thorns wrap my bones the land is bare

I walk the dead wood no god is there

Blood on the stones beneath my feet

Still I follow the path through the dead trees

They burned the oldest trees to dust

Left every stream choked with ash and rust

I thought I heard a voice below—

Only the roots still growing slow

I place my hand against the ground

And feel them move without a sound

The cold cuts deeper than the mine

But these roots are living under mine

If I fall here let the branches rise

Let them find their way back to the sky

Thorns wrap my bones the land is bare

I walk the dead wood no god is there

If these roots break through my grave

Let the forest take back what the fire claimed

[Wind]

[Distorted Riff Fades]