Too Soon for Stone

Lyrics

[Intro]
Cold earth on my lips, breath blooming in the black.
A drum in my ribs keeps counting me back.
Firelight drips through roots above my head.
I hear my name pronounced as if I'm dead.

[Verse 1]
They read my name over the pit, each letter like a stone.
Gravel on the syllables, frost biting through bone.
My heartbeat knocked the coffin walls, a stubborn, iron code.
Dirt packed tight under my nails, the ground would not let go.
I bit the dark and swallowed ash to make a second sky.
I pressed my shoulder into night and felt the mountain sigh.
I saw the fire from below, a wavering red crown.
I learned that living sometimes means clawing upward, down.

[Pre-Chorus]
I wrapped your blade in linen and left it by the flame.
I whispered to the granite while I chiseled out your name.
I thought the wind took everything the storm had left to claim.
But something moved beneath my feet and called me through the shame.

[Chorus]
You carved my name too soon in stone,
cold letters tried to own my bones.
I am the breath you couldn't hear,
the footsteps gathering under fear.
I watched your fire through the loam,
You carved my name too soon in stone.
I rise with dirt between my teeth,
and pull the dark up by its roots.

[Drop]

[Verse 2]
I held the torch until it burned a hole into the snow.
I felt the ground remember you, I heard the gravel glow.
Your name was wet on granite, my hands shook like a bell.
I thought I lost you cleanly, but I hadn't learned that hell
Is quiet when it buries, then it rumbles like a throne.
The soil began to heave and write a different oath in stone.
I saw your fingers break the crust, the blood and winter mix.
I called your name and hated how fast I'd made it fixed.

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Knuckles raw, the earth's cold mouth kept trying to keep me fed.
I breathed a cloud against the dark, refused the second bed.
I pushed until the letters scraped my back like jagged rope,
and every scrape spelled out a word I hammered into hope.

[Chorus 2]
You carved my name too soon in stone,
but hear the living in my tone.
I'm the shadow leaving dust,
iron heart that would not rust.
I saw your fire from below,
through roots and ice and heavy snow.
From under ash where marrow groaned,
You carved my name too soon in stone.

[Drop 2]

[Bridge]
I set the pyre for a breathing man, and I will wear that weight.
I folded dawn before its hour and learned the cost of haste.
If faith is forged in waiting, mine was brittle, sharp, and thin.
I should have listened to the ground that kept your thunder in.
Take back the night I gave away, take back the ash and name.
If you can stand again, then let me learn your flame.

[Chant Break]
Blood to breath, to road, to home (hey!)
Stone to dust, to feet of stone (hey!)
Rise and roar, we beat the loam (hey!)
Name not owned, the name our own (hey!)
Ho! Ho! Ho! (hey!)
Ho! Ho! Ho! (hey!)

[Final Chorus]
You carved my name too soon in stone,
I heard it echo through the loam.
I rise with frost in lungs of flame,
I stand and answer to my name.
You carved my name too soon in stone,
so watch me walk it home.
With firelight waking in my eyes,
with dirt and blood as proof I rise,
With every step I break the throne,
so watch me walk it home.
Your grief can keep the chisels cold,
my feet will burn a living road.
You carved my name too soon in stone,
so watch me walk it home.

[Outro]
Warm air on the letters that once tried to hold you still.
I trace them softly in the light and learn the word "we will."