[Verse 1]
I woke in mud and teeth
Cold ash in my mouth
No roof above my eyes
Just ribs of jungle cloud
Giant steps shook the ground
A lake turned red and loud
My hands were shaking bones
My lungs forgot the sound
[Pre-Chorus]
I ran through fern and fang
Past broken egg-shell rain
The earth was carved in claw marks
And every path was pain
Something huge was breathing
Behind the tree line glow
I turned and saw the age
That ate the world I know
[Chorus]
Wake me in the blood age
Wake me in the blood age
I rise in the blood age
(come and tear me open)
Wake me in the blood age
Wake me in the blood age
I live in the blood age
(under the thunder bone)
[Verse 2]
A tyrant blinked in shade
Its jaw was built for war
My pulse hit every scar
Like fists against a door
A raptor carved the reeds
Its claws sang on the stone
I learned the shape of fear
By hearing my own throat
The sky was all ash gray
The swamp was swallowing dawn
I made a knife from grief
And kept my broken form
[Pre-Chorus]
I heard the ground respond
With stomps like falling steel
The world had not been dreamed
It was too raw to feel
The ferns kept their own secrets
The cliffs kept ancient bones
I stood inside the mouth
Of something born to own
[Chorus]
Wake me in the blood age
Wake me in the blood age
I rise in the blood age
(come and tear me open)
Wake me in the blood age
Wake me in the blood age
I live in the blood age
(under the thunder bone)
[Bridge]
No mercy in the moss
No prayer in the trees
Only heat and hunger
And a sky of shattered leaves
I bit back every panic
I fed it to the ground
If I am prey, then let me
Be the one that makes a sound
[Final Chorus]
Wake me in the blood age
Wake me in the blood age
I rise in the blood age
(come and tear me open)
Wake me in the blood age
Wake me in the blood age
I live in the blood age
(under the thunder bone)
Wake me in the blood age
Wake me in the blood age
I rise in the blood age
(break the world awake)