The Sorceress' Mountain (Malinalco)

The Sorceress' Mountain (Malinalco)
by
Tingster & The Coyotitos

[Verse 1]

In the bruised-light hush of Malinalco’s rim
Where the cliffs lean close like they’re listening
I walked the spine of a broken world
Where the mountain breathes what men forgot.

A stone-cut shrine swallowed by the hill
Still trembles with the ghosts of the disciplined
Eagle hearts carved in volcanic bone
Calling out for anyone who still can change.

[Pre-Chorus]

I felt the pulse beneath my feet
A steady drum of unfinished dreams
The ruins whispered half the truth
Waiting for a name to answer.

[Chorus]

Rise from the stone
Break from the shell of a world grown cold
The sorceress calls
“Transform or fall, transform or fall...”
The Mountain knows
The cost of refusing to grow
The past still bleeds
When destiny sleeps.

[Verse 2]

She appeared like smoke from forgotten fire
Hair drifting on winds that never touched her
Eyes lit sharp like obsidian shards
Staring straight through the armor of my doubts.

Malinalxóchitl, exiled by her own
Yet crowned by every shadow she ever tamed
She said the world didn’t break from war
It cracked when we feared becoming more.

[Pre-Chorus]

She placed her hand on living stone
The chamber thrummed with old resolve
A covenant of transformation
Buried under centuries of dust.

[Chorus]

Rise from the stone
Break from the shell of a world grown cold
The sorceress calls
“Transform or fall, transform or fall...”
The Mountain knows
The cost of refusing to grow
The past still bleeds
When destiny sleeps.

[Bridge]

I saw a valley dreaming in reverse
Fields alive before the curse
Warriors forging spirit into form
Children laughing under sunlit storms.

Then the vision cracked like brittle clay
A world that chose the easier way
Forgot the fire that shapes the soul
And lost the strength to hold its own.

[Breakdown – Spoken / Whispered]

“Little coyote…
The desert kept you because you remember.
Wake the places where change died…
Or the future won’t have enough breath left to stand.”

[Final Chorus]

Rise from the stone
Break from the shell that time outgrew
The sorceress cries
“Transform or die, transform or die…”
The Mountain waits
For hearts that dare to regenerate
The world reclaims
The ones who change.

[Outro]

I left the temple, marked by fire
The mountain humming in my stride
A burden placed, a warning given
And the road ahead refusing silence.

Malinalco exhaled
As if to say:
“Remember what you saw…
Before the world forgets itself again.”