Last of the Forest Sky

[Verse 1]
Blue hands in the ashes
Braids dragging through the dust
Names carved into bark
All eaten up by rust
You used to run on branches
Now branches run through bone
Imogen
You’re breathing
In a world that’s overgrown
[Chorus]
Last of the forest sky
Why did you live when they had to die?
You keep asking the ghosts in the leaves
You keep choking on the air you breathe
Last of the forest sky
You turned away when they burned the high
Now your heart is a hollow drum
Where your people used to hum
[Verse 2]
You still hear their shouting
When the night birds start to call
See their eyes in every
Water drop that falls
You left them in the fire
Told yourself you’d come back soon
Now the smoke is the only
Thing that knows the truth
[Chorus]
Last of the forest sky
Why did you live when they had to die?
You keep asking the ghosts in the leaves
You keep choking on the air you breathe
Last of the forest sky
You turned away when they burned the high
Now your heart is a hollow drum
Where your people used to hum
[Bridge]
Was it courage
Was it fear
Were you running
Or pulled out of here
Every footprint
Erased by the rain
But your mind still walks
Through every flame (oh)
[Chorus]
Last of the forest sky
Why did you live when they had to die?
You keep begging the roots for release
But they bind you in their grief
Last of the forest sky
You close your eyes just to say goodbye
To the faces you couldn’t save
As you sleep beside their graves

Haunting, cinematic ballad with female vocals over spacious pads and low, pulsing drums; verses stay close and fragile with intimate piano and soft vocal doubles, chorus swells with distant choir harmonies and reverb-drenched toms, subtle flutes and organic textures weaving in and out to evoke alien jungle, final chorus drops to a near-whisper for a bittersweet, echoing fade., sad