Shadows of the Ancient Ground** (v.3)

**[Verse 1]**  
With my flesh, I crave the night,  
A beast’s claw reaches for the moon’s light.  
In the darkened wood, no path in sight,  
Only flickers on a blackened candle’s height.  

**[Verse 2]**  
Mistlike gown the marshes drape,  
Whispers rise — the unseen powers’s breath.  
No common folk dare cross this shape,  
Here lies the curse of graves long left.  

**[Chorus]**  
Oh, the gold lies deep in this earth,  
But this gift demands a life’s worth.  
A sacrifice for the serpent’s den,  
A child’s blood at midnight — then…  

**[Verse 3]**  
The wind stirs, the leaves take flight,  
Blood is spilled — the curse takes hold.  
I hear the whisper: «You are mine!»  
Something from the dark has clutched my soul.  

**[Bridge]**  
It cuts my skin, it burns like flame,  
Death’s cold breath now calls my name.  
My final sigh — my heart explodes,  
The gold remains where silence roams.  

**[Chorus]**  
Oh, the gold lies deep in this earth,  
But this gift demands a life’s worth.  
A sacrifice for the serpent’s den,  
A child’s blood at midnight — then…  

**[Outro]**  
All this place is cloaked in bone,  
Rivers of blood instead of streams.  
No birdsong here, just silent tone —  
This cursed land, the serpent’s dreams…