[Verse 1] A passage in the dark behind the altar The raven found it first and marked the way The Seven at the gates were growing louder And time inside the castle would not stay
(Priest): I know this formation — go (Elara): Together — (Priest): Someone has to hold the door.
[Pre-Chorus] He turned the way he always should have turned Before the silence, before the kept-in truth He said — not all of us forgot what honor was And then he walked toward them — not toward you
[Chorus] Follow the raven Through the passage and the dark Follow the raven When you cannot see the mark You don’t need all the answers You don’t need to know how far Just follow the black wing Follow what she sent Follow the raven’s heart
[Verse 2] The sound behind her was a kind of thunder She did not look. She could not look. She ran. The raven moved through dark as if it knew here Like something that had flown this path before — it had
(Elara): Father — I will remember you — (Elara): I will remember you —
[Chorus] Follow the raven Through the passage and the dark Follow the raven When you cannot see the mark You don’t need all the answers You don’t need to know how far Just follow the black wing Follow what she sent Follow the raven’s heart
[Bridge] And then she stopped Not because the path stopped But because she knew it
(Elara): I know this road. (Elara): I know this road. (Elara): She walked this road —
She took the road less travelled The one that no one names She moved before she understood And left the road the same
(Elara): She was walking toward me. (Elara): She was always walking toward me.
[Verse 3] She carried all of them inside the running The Archer’s final word. The Priest’s last door. The Veteran who vanished. The Young One. And a teacher she had lost so long before.
(Elara): I know where I’m going. (Elara): The raven knows. I know.
[Outro] Follow dawn When you can’t recognize the road beneath you Follow dawn —
(Elara): No. (Elara): Follow her.
Follow the raven Follow the raven Even slowly — still counts