[Intro]
You taught me
How a quiet room
Can scream
Soft throat
Torn on your name
Every breath
A blood-warm blade
I hold you
Like a wound that won’t
Close
[Verse 1]
How many nights did I beg the dark
Trade my lungs just to take your pain
You burned slow in a hospital halo
I burned out in a parking-lot rain
You smiled
Said “go on
You’re stronger”
I shattered in the hallway light
I carried every needle and whisper
Now they carve through my skull at night
[Chorus]
I made my grief into god
And it only wants blood
Every prayer is a curse
Every kiss turns to rust
Love did this to me
Ripped the softness from my teeth
If this is all that I became
Then let my rage
Be your wreath
[Verse 2]
They say “time will sand down the edges”
Time just filed me into a knife
Every memory floods like acid
Every kindness cuts like spite
I see you in the face of strangers
I choke on what I couldn’t save
I built altars out of empty bottles
Screamed your name
Till the glass misbehaved
[Chorus]
I made my grief into god
And it only wants blood
Every promise I swore
Rots like meat in my gut
Love did this to me
Turned my marrow into teeth
If this is all that I can give
Let my rage
Be your wreath
[Bridge]
Tear my heart out
Leave the hole
I’m not healing
I’m not whole
If suffering is all you left
I’ll wear it like a crown of flesh
Devotion sharpened into hate
I am the blade
You made
[Chorus]
I made my grief into god
And it only wants blood
Every “it’s okay” they offer
Feeds the flood
Love did this to me
Stitched a serpent in my speech
If this is how I stay with you
Let my rage
Be your wreath (yeah)