[Intro]
Stone remembers every knee
Every blade and every plea
Down below where cold roots crawl
The crimson altar waits for all

[Verse]
They led the captives through the pines
With bound hands marked by lunar signs
The chieftains wore their funeral gold
Their eyes were fevered, hard, and old
The seeress gone, the truth denied
They chose the knife, they chose their pride
If gods would not descend by prayer
They would be dragged through blood and air

[Pre-Chorus]
Light the pitch
Close the ring
Let the hollow mountain sing

[Chorus]
Beneath the Crimson Altar
We begged the sky to take our side
Beneath the Crimson Altar
We carved our fear and called it pride
No god replied, no raven flew
Only the blood moon watched and knew
That every sacrifice we made
Was one more debt upon the blade

[Verse]
The first to fall was not a foe
But one who dared to whisper no
A young shield-bearer, barely grown
Was slain before the standing stone
His mother’s scream became the hymn
The torchlight bent and swallowed him
And all who came for victory
Had fed the dark beneath the tree

[Pre-Chorus]
Raise the bowl
Spill the breath
Dress the lie
In sacred death

[Chorus]
Beneath the Crimson Altar
We begged the sky to take our side
Beneath the Crimson Altar
We carved our fear and called it pride
No god replied, no raven flew
Only the blood moon watched and knew
That every sacrifice we made
Was one more debt upon the blade

[Instrumental]
Drums pound slow, guitars descend
Folk drones twist where shadows bend
Choirs chant in deep despair
Smoke crawls black through frozen air

[Bridge]
The altar cracked from rim to root
The moonlight turned from red to soot
And in the stone, a voice was born
Not divine, but filled with warning

[Breakdown]
No more blood
No more sons
No more fathers
No more tongues
No more names
No more lies
No more kingdoms
Under red skies

[Build-up]
But madness heard a battle call
Where warning echoed through the hall
And leaders raised their blades once more
To drown the truth in deeper war

[Chorus]
Beneath the Crimson Altar
We begged the sky to take our side
Beneath the Crimson Altar
We carved our fear and called it pride
No god replied, no raven flew
Only the blood moon watched and knew
That every sacrifice we made
Was one more debt upon the blade

[Chorus]
Beneath the Crimson Altar
The old stones split, the torches died
Beneath the Crimson Altar
We saw the end we kept inside
No god had called us to the slain
No heaven blessed our holy pain
The altar spoke, and what it said
Was all this blood will wake the dead

[Outro]
Stone remembers every knee
And all the blood we thought was free