[Verse 1]
You slide in on a breath
Warm venom on my neck
Soft syllables like lace
Barbed wire in a dress
You promise me the short way
Through every locked door
Silver tongue in the shadows
Drawing me toward war
[Pre-Chorus]
You say
“Why bleed for nothing?
Why crawl when you can fly?”
Your sugar-coated poison
Tracing circles in my mind
[Chorus]
You are the whisperknife
Kissing the back of my mind
Cutting a line through my will
Just to see if I’ll bend
If I’ll break this time
I feel your fingers climb
Trying to pull me from my spine
But I won’t kneel to that smile
I won’t be yours tonight (hey!)
[Verse 2]
You paint the world in black and gold
Every sin a sainted crown
You swear that I deserve it
If I just let my guard fall down
You echo every hunger
Turn every wound to thirst
You say
“You’ve been so faithful
Don’t you want to put you first?”
[Pre-Chorus]
You press against my heartbeat
“I’m everything you lack”
I taste you on my tongue tip
And drag your promise back
[Chorus]
You are the whisperknife
Kissing the back of my mind
Cutting a line through my will
Just to see if I’ll bend
If I’ll break this time
I feel your fingers climb
Trying to pull me from my spine
But I won’t kneel to that smile
I won’t be yours tonight
[Bridge]
I bite my tongue till it’s iron-red
To drown your velvet curse
You purr my secret weaknesses
I spit your language first
“I am not your pretty puppet
I am not your hollow throne”
You hiss right in my earlobe
“I just hate to see you alone” (oh)
[Chorus]
You are the whisperknife
Kissing the back of my mind
Cutting a line through my will
Still you burn at the edge of every line
I feel your fingers climb
Scratching the cage of my spine
But I hold tight to this defiance
You don’t own this heart of mine
[Outro]
So hiss my name in the dark
Curl like smoke around my ear
I’ll wear these scars like armor
You can talk
But you can’t steer