Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Spanish moss
Breathes on my neck
Cypress knees
Like teeth in the black
Lanterns drowned
Years ago
Something follows
Everywhere I go
Mud up to my knees
Air tastes like rust
Hear a wet growl
Crawling through the brush
Old folks warned me
Said don’t look back
I hear it laughing
In the cattail cracks
[Chorus]
Rougarou in the reeds
Howling low
Howling low
Dragging chains of old beliefs
Through the bayou
Through my bones
If I run
Or if I plead
It still wants my name
My blood
Rougarou in the reeds
Crawling out the swamp at dusk
[Verse 2]
Moon caught
On a broken branch
Alligator eyes
Watch my last chance
Prayers stick
To the roof of my mouth
Every step I take
Pulls me further south
Stories in the kitchen
Whispered over rice
Trading sins for silence
Rolling dice
If you break your promise
It comes for you
Wet paws print
Right through your room
[Chorus]
Rougarou in the reeds
Howling low
Howling low
Dragging chains of old beliefs
Through the bayou
Through my bones
If I run
Or if I plead
It still wants my name
My blood
Rougarou in the reeds
Crawling out the swamp at dusk
[Bridge]
[Guitars drop to eerie cleans]
It knows my face
From my father’s fear
Passed down like debt
Year to year
Every secret
Fed the dark
Now it wears
My aching heart (oh)
[Chorus]
Rougarou in the reeds
Howling low
Howling low
Dragging chains of old beliefs
Through the bayou
Through my bones
If I run
Or if I bleed
It still sings my name in mud
Rougarou in the reeds
I’m the one it’s dreaming of
Style
rockswampy dark grunge rockmale vocals; murky drop-tuned guitars with bentdissonant chords and a slowdragging half-time groove. verses stay low and whispered over tom-heavy drums and droning bass; chorus explodes with rasped vocalsopen crashand fuzzed-out power chords. bridge pulls back to eerie clean guitar with chorus-drenched harmonicsthen slams into a finaldoubled-vocal hook and feedback tail.cajungrunge
Prompt
Dark grunge rock about the Rougarou monster in Cajun lore, how it wanders the swamps
Credits
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LunarOutput334GeneratedJan 26, 2026
ModelAria v5
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