Witchbane
A dark fairytale ballad sung by a powerful female vocalist, with haunting melodies, cinematic strings, and dramatic orchestration. The lyrics tell the tragic story of a girl cursed to slay the one she once loved, blending gothic romance with poetic sorrow. The instrumental builds slowly with piano, harp, and eerie ambient textures, then swells into a heartbreaking chorus with layered harmonies and orchestral flourishes. The tone is emotional, mysterious, and magical, evoking the feeling of walking alone through a cursed forest beneath a blood-red moon. Lyrical imagery includes thorns, spells, betrayal, and forbidden love.
Witchbane
A dark fairytale ballad sung by a powerful female vocalist, with haunting melodies, cinematic strings, and dramatic orchestration. The lyrics tell the tragic story of a girl cursed to slay the one she once loved, blending gothic romance with poetic sorrow. The instrumental builds slowly with piano, harp, and eerie ambient textures, then swells into a heartbreaking chorus with layered harmonies and orchestral flourishes. The tone is emotional, mysterious, and magical, evoking the feeling of walking alone through a cursed forest beneath a blood-red moon. Lyrical imagery includes thorns, spells, betrayal, and forbidden love.
Lyrics
Verse 1
Once I danced in velvet dusk
With flowers in my braid
Now I walk with calloused hands
Through thorns my own soul made
They etched her name into my fate
With whispers carved in bone
The spell said “kill what made you whole”
And left me all alone
Pre-Chorus
She was the moon, the bloom, the flame
I loved her more than breath
But every step I take toward her
Is closer to her death
Chorus
I am the witchbane, blade of grief
Cursed to cut my sweetest thief
Each heartbeat rings, a warning chime
That love, once pure, becomes a crime
A kiss now burns, a touch betrays
I hunt the light that lit my days
Verse 2
She doesn’t know I’m coming yet
My eyes still wear her name
But fate has turned my longing soft
Into a deadly aim
They dressed me up in prophecy
In threads I cannot break
But threads can strangle gently too
With every breath I take
Pre-Chorus 2
She called me brave, she called me kind
Before the curse took hold
Now I am ash in velvet gloves
And iron running cold
Chorus 2
I am the witchbane, heart in chains
My love bound tight in cursed remains
A dagger kissed by tears and time
That sings her death in every rhyme
I’d rather fall into her spell
Than give her soul to shadow’s well
[Bridge] (soft, broken)
If she looked at me and asked me to stay…
Would I drop the blade, or fade away?
Final Chorus – slower, more tragic
I am the witchbane, tale untold
The weapon forged in hands too cold
But if I shatter on her skin
Then let this be where I begin
No hero’s crown, no villain’s fame
Just cursed and lost
And whispering her name