[Intro]
Full to the lip.
Green to the brim.
One drop more,
And it spills on him.

[Verse 1]
I watched the surface climb and shine,
A bitter moon in a stone-cold mine.
My wrists went numb, my shoulders tore,
No dawnline marked the cave mouth floor.
He knew before I moved my knee,
His one free eye went hard on me.
"Go," he breathed without a sound,
And grief rose up from underground.

[Pre-Chorus]
The bowl grew heavy, the cave grew thin,
The serpent gathered its poison grin.
One step away, one mercy denied,
And all the earth held pain inside.

[Chorus]
When the bowl must empty,
The mountain bares its teeth.
When the bowl must empty,
The roots shake underneath.
One heart turns from mercy,
Winter wakes beneath.

[Verse 2]
I poured the venom in a crack,
It smoked like sin and hissed back.
Behind me came his butchered roar,
A sound that split the underfloor.
His spine arched hard against the cord,
His heel beat time no drum ignored.
I ran with poison on my gown,
As stones broke loose and thundered down.

[Chorus]
When the bowl must empty,
The mountain bares its teeth.
When the bowl must empty,
The roots shake underneath.
One heart turns from mercy,
Winter wakes beneath.

[Build-up]
Back to the slab, back to the cry,
Back where green drops open the eye.
Back with the bowl, back through smoke,
Back as the first world-rib broke.

[Breakdown]
Drop.
Burn.
Shake.
Return.

[Final Chorus]
When the bowl must empty,
The mountain bares its teeth.
When the bowl must empty,
The roots shake underneath.
One heart turns from mercy,
Winter wakes beneath.

[Outro]
I caught the next drop. Not the last.
The floor still trembled from the past.