[Verse 1]
Dim lamp hum on the case file
Coffee rings stain every doubt
Victim names under fingerprints
You read them slow
You read them out
You sketch his face in the margins
I trace his childhood in red
Two cold chairs
One cold silence
Asking what lived in his head
[Chorus]
We’re angels in the autopsy room (ahh)
Picking through the truth and the bloom
Every monster once was a child
Every timeline tangled and wild
We say
Nothing’s only wrong or right (oh)
Lay the halo next to the knife
Hindsight cuts like a scalpel bright
We see in shadows
Not in light
[Verse 2]
You say “he snapped”
I say “he cracked slow”
Layer by layer
Peeling motive from the bone
You hold the photo of the crime scene
I hold the letters he wrote
You count the wounds like rosary beads
I count the times he begged for hope
[Chorus]
We’re angels in the autopsy room (ahh)
Picking through the truth and the bloom
Every monster once was a child
Every timeline tangled and wild
We say
Nothing’s only wrong or right (hey)
Lay the halo next to the knife
Hindsight cuts like a scalpel bright
We see in shadows
Not in light
[Bridge]
Play the devil in your questions
I’ll defend the dead in mine
You say “lock him up forever”
I say “follow every sign”
Two soft voices on the fault line
Sisters on a borrowed time
If I were born in his horror
Could his hunger have been mine?
[Chorus]
We’re angels in the autopsy room (ahh)
Picking through the truth and the bloom
Every monster once was a child
Every timeline tangled and wild
We say
Nothing’s only wrong or right
Lay the halo next to the knife
Hindsight cuts like a scalpel bright
We see in shadows
We see in shadows
Not in light