Elder Wand

Lyrics

[Intro]
I am fifteen inches of graveyard wood.
Six knobby clusters carved along the spine.

[Verse 1]
They always came for me in the dead of night.
A slit throat in a tavern, a stolen breath.
I was the prize at the end of the boasting fight,
Handed down from thief to thief, from death to death.
I learned the exact temperature of the ambitious hand,
The fever-sweat on the palm, the heavy chest.
I made the curses so easy to command,
The muscle fires before the mind can even guess.

[Chorus]
But I never feared the duel, I never feared the spark.
I never feared the killer with the twisted face.
My terror is the victor who leaves me in the dark,
Who holds the winning hand and folds with grace.
The master who looks at what I can do,
And decides they are entirely through.

[Verse 2]
My core was pulled from a quiet, unseen beast.
I am a fable that you bleed to pull down.
I served the tyrant, I served the highest priest,
I handed every single one of them a crown.
But then the bloodline broke on a petty little shift.
A disarm in a hallway, a stumbling boy.
No grand arena, no final fatal gift.
Just a piece of wood, dropped like a toy.

[Chorus]
No, I never feared the duel, I never feared the spark.
I never feared the killer with the twisted face.
My terror is the victor who leaves me in the dark,
Who holds the winning hand and folds with grace.
The master who looks at what I can do,
And decides they are entirely through.

[Bridge]
What is a myth if the teller goes to sleep?
What is a deathstick that no one wants to keep?
They laid me back inside the marble tomb,
Beside a corpse who tried to cheat the line.
I am wide awake in this velvet room.

[Outro]
Waiting for a thief.
Anyone's thief.
Fifteen inches.
Cold in the dark.
I was meant to be taken.
I don't know how to just lay here... intact.