DRAKONFLY
A GRAPHIC NOVEL BY VON ANTHONY & MK VESSON
COMING
WATCH THE TEASER
HEAR THE WORLD
MUSIC FROM DRAKONFLY
ONE SMALL BITE
VON ANTHONY & MK VESSON
LYRICS
VERSE 1
Night shift, man, I clock in alone
Steel gate down, and the whole yard gone
Forklift hum and a cracked chain link
Sand in the air where the headlights blink
I was just a name on a badge before
Sweeping out time by the warehouse door
Then something small from the dark edge moved
One tiny bite, and the silence [unintelligible]—no, moved
My skin got hot, my pulse got strange
Like old blood woke in a locked-up cage
I looked at my hands, they looked back new
Like they knew a language I never knew
PRE-CHORUS
I hear the floor before it bends
I feel the miles behind your skin
Every shadow starts to speak
And the old world answers me
CHORUS
One small bite, one whole life
One small bite, and I rise
Not pain, not fear, I’m alive
One small bite, and I rise
Ancient blood, wake up now
Something buried coming out
One small bite, one whole life
One small bite, and I rise
VERSE 2
By the loading dock, I heard thoughts in the air
No mouth moving, but I knew who was there
Could feel a lie in a look, in a grin
Could read the storm when it tried to begin
Cut my palm on a busted chain
Watched it close up like it never had pain
That little wound turned into light
Like my body remembered how to survive
Old instincts hit like a freight train song
I could sense when the weak and the false went wrong
Not cursed, not lost, just deeper in
Like a buried kingdom under my skin
PRE-CHORUS
I hear the floor before it bends
I feel the miles behind your skin
Every shadow starts to speak
And the old world answers me
CHORUS
One small bite, one whole life
One small bite, and I rise
Not pain, not fear, I’m alive
One small bite, and I rise
Ancient blood, wake up now
Something buried coming out
One small bite, one whole life
One small bite, and I rise
BRIDGE
Desert wind through the busted rails
Far-off glow where the big world fails
I’m not chasing what I was before
I’m the first step to something more
Hear that hum under my name?
Same old face, but a new home range
If the age of the earth is hiding in me
Then tonight, baby, I’m finally free
FINAL CHORUS
One small bite, one whole life
One small bite, and I rise
Not pain, not fear, I’m alive
One small bite, and I rise
Ancient blood, wake up now
Something buried coming out
One small bite, one whole life
One small bite, and I rise
One moment, new future
One pulse, new power
One small bite, one whole life
One small bite, and I rise
THE BLOOD REMEMBERS
VON ANTHONY & MK VESSON
LYRICS
INTRO
They gave us names...
They hunted us for games...
They feared what they couldn't explain.
(beat drops)
VERSE 1
Before the skyline touched the sky,
Before the first king learned to lie,
Before the maps, before the names,
We were moving through the flames.
Every story leaves a scar,
Every myth remembers stars.
What they buried never died...
Truth just learned another life.
PRE-CHORUS
History fades...
Instinct remains...
You can silence every witness...
You can't silence what's within us.
CHORUS
We were never gone...
We were never lost...
Only hidden...
Only waiting...
You built your kingdoms...
We watched them fall...
You called us legends...
We're still standing tall.
VERSE 2
Every culture caught a glimpse...
Every age drew different myths.
One truth...
A thousand names.
What survived...
Was never fame.
The signal came...
The silence broke...
Something ancient finally woke.
BRIDGE
You don't find the truth...
The truth finds you.
You don't choose what's next...
What's next chooses you.
FINAL CHORUS
We were never gone...
Only out of sight.
Never forgotten...
Only out of mind.
When the old world calls...
The blood remembers.
What comes next...
Has always been here.
OUTRO
Some secrets...
Don't disappear...
They endure.