[Verse 1 - Heavy guitar underneath + low strings threading tension under warmth] I’ve been hearing things along the eastern roads Names and movements, fire in the hills I’ve been choosing not to follow every echo Not yet — I’m not ready, and I know it still
They say a woman in red left a trail of silence Through the ruins of everything she crossed They say she fights the kind of war you can’t come back from And counts it worth the cost
[Pre-Chorus - the news lands differently] But then I hear it — clear, no room to dismiss War is dead And she’s the one who ended it
[Chorus - full, tense, building] The screams of crimson Roll across the land like thunder She’s rewriting every story that was told The screams of crimson And I hear them from my doorway And I know — I know — I know
[Verse 2 - she was inside the system, the knowledge surfaces] I know those names they’re throwing in the rumors The Order. The Riders. I know them well I was brought up inside every wall they built me I served the system long before I fell
I’ve heard The Seven speak behind closed chambers I’ve watched The Commandment Keeper mark the dead I know The Arched Beings and what they’re hiding The Ones Below and everything they’ve fed
And above them all — The One — the voice that started it The silence underneath the sound of everything
[Pre-Chorus 2 - warning she can’t deliver yet] She’s walking into something that has no floor And she doesn’t know the half of what’s in store
[Chorus] The screams of crimson Roll across the land like thunder She’s rewriting every story that was told The screams of crimson And I hear them from my doorway And I know — I know — I know
[Bridge - the internal war, restraint barely holding] I want to go I want to find her Tell her what I know about the dark inside the machine But I’m not ready I’m not healed enough I’m still learning how to walk Without the weight of everything they made me
She doesn’t need me broken She needs me whole And I’m not there yet
So I stay And I listen And I learn the rumors by heart So when the day comes — And it will come — I’ll be ready
[Final Chorus - controlled, holding back] The screams of crimson Rolling closer every morning She’s rewriting every story that was told The screams of crimson I’ll answer them — I promise But not yet Not yet Not yet
[Outro - barely a whisper] Not yet Soon But not yet