Bonewood crown

[Verse 1]
Mud on my knees tonight
Ash in the birch bark line
I heard the hounds go quiet
When your shadow crossed mine

My teeth are carved from winter
My hands know the old salt
I wore your blackened blessing
Like a stone inside my soul

[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the plucks in the dark
Hear them climb, hear them spark
Old blood waking up
In the seam of my heart

[Chorus]
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Take my name tonight
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Bite the fear in my spine

Bearwolf, bearwolf
I stand in the fire
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Bonewood crown, take me higher

[Verse 2]
A red thread on my wrist now
A coin in my mouth for the dead
I walked through the frozen pines
With your howl inside my head

The drum kept a hard slow pulse
Boots hit like a judgement bell
I learned how to wear the night
And never let it tell

[Pre-Chorus]
Hear the plucks in the dark
Hear them climb, hear them spark
Old blood waking up
In the seam of my heart

[Chorus]
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Take my name tonight
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Bite the fear in my spine

Bearwolf, bearwolf
I stand in the fire
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Bonewood crown, take me higher

[Bridge]
I was made from a wound
And a song left unsung
Now I grin at the moon
With the old rites on my tongue

(come closer)
(come closer)
I don't kneel for the cold
I become what it wants

[Final Chorus]
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Take my name tonight
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Bite the fear in my spine

Bearwolf, bearwolf
I stand in the fire
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Bonewood crown, take me higher

Bearwolf, bearwolf
Hear the wild ones rise
Bearwolf, bearwolf
Now the dark knows my eyes