VINES AND STEEL

[Intro: Distant drums, wind, cracking roots, low drone] "Root hears... steel trembles... we come..." [Verse 1: Male choir, rhythmic, marching beat] Crescere! Crescere! Break the bone and drink the light! Mordere! Mordere! We are roots in the endless night! Vincere! Vincere! Flesh to mulch, and steel to rust! In the mycelium we trust! [Chorus 1: Full choir, heavy percussion, high energy] Vines and steel! Blood and dust! Forest god, you're just a must! Rot and wilt! Eat and be Part of root, part of treachery! We're no beasts, we're the net, Death for us is no regret, In each leaf your doom is set, Say it now: "I'm inside you yet!" [Verse 2: Female solo, snarling, with glitch effects] You built your temples out of steel, But iron bleeds and roots are real. You fired bullets, called us plague, Now every shot becomes a seed we fling back. Your generals, your chains of command — Just compost for our garden land. Bow to the spore, kneel to the vine, Your empire ends in our design. [Chorus 2: Layered choirs, male+female, fast, chaotic] Crescere! Mordere! Vincere! Break and bite and win the fight! Vincere! Mordere! Crescere! We are hunger, we are night! Steel to rust, and bone to soil, Every victory is our toil! In the mycelium we trust, From your ashes we adjust! [Bridge: Tempo slows, beatbox only, whispers] "Radix omnia vincit..." "you're already inside..." [Final Chorus: Double tempo, full force, wall of sound, abrupt cut at the end] Vines and steel! Blood and dust! Forest god, you're just a must! Rot and wilt! Eat and be Part of root, part of treachery! We're a harvest, we're a mill, You're a spare part, standing still! Drown in green, in open maw, Vines and steel become the law! CRESCERE! MORDERE! VINCERE! [Outro: Distant wind, single drop of water, whisper]