[Intro]
[low choir, distant tolling bell]
House lights fade
Velvet rope parts
Welcome in
To the graveyard arts (hey!)
[Verse 1]
Step on the stage in a plague mask
Jawbone necklace, stained flask
Teeth in the pocket, blade in the Bible
Pages stuck shut from a past revival
Tongue twist, talk in a dead dialect
Clock ticks backward, spine disconnects
Paint my face with the ash of the ushers
Blood-red carpet, bone-white crushers
Snap like a mousetrap, back row gasp
Program printed on a body bag tag
Every bar carved in cartilage
Voice like a morgue door, hard to miss
Chopper in the larynx, rattling the rafters
Spit so rapid that I stagger the pastors
Words turn worms in your inner ear canal
This that
Curtain Call of the Damned
[Chorus]
Welcome to the
Curtain Call of the Damned
(woah)
Stand up, clap for the hacked and the hanged
Spotlight shine on the bruised and the branned
We don’t pray here, we just chant your name
Curtain Call of the—Curtain Call of the Damned
Hands up high if you’re scarred and you’re shamed
Crowd surf coffins in a human wave
Front row seats to the end of your faith
Curtain Call of the—Curtain Call of the Damned (hey!)
[Verse 2]
Neck-snappin’ tempo, let me get it in a millisecond
Anybody really wanna get up in the middle of the venom
I’ma hit ’em with a bit of irredeemable rhythm
Then I pivot, put a vision of a villain in your cerebellum
Click-click, tongue like a rusted switchblade
Six-six scripts in a sick little mixtape
Ribcage drumline, boot to the bass
Fingers on your throat like a two-hand brace
House lights flicker when I syllable split
Every little bit of spit a critical slit
Minimal limit to the wicked I give ’em
I dig in the rhythm and drill ’til the filament rips
Black suit, black gloves, blacklisted
Backstage mirror with the glass twisted
See three faces, each one whisper
“Feed that crowd, make the whole room blister”
And I do, with a grin like a fracture
Chant tight as a wound in a rapture
Call my band of the lost and captured
We the final act, last chapter
[Chorus]
Welcome to the
Curtain Call of the Damned
(woah)
Stand up, clap for the hacked and the hanged
Spotlight shine on the bruised and the branned
We don’t pray here, we just chant your name
Curtain Call of the—Curtain Call of the Damned
Hands up high if you’re scarred and you’re shamed
Crowd surf coffins in a human wave
Front row seats to the end of your faith
Curtain Call of the—Curtain Call of the Damned (yeah)
[Bridge]
[drop into brostep break, crowd chant]
Left, right
Stomp on the cracks in the floor
One more
Scream till you tear out your throat
This night
Every secret you hide gets scored
On the walls in a jagged red quote (ooh)
[Chorus]
Welcome to the
Curtain Call of the Damned
(woah)
Stand up, clap for the hacked and the hanged
Spotlight shine on the bruised and the branned
We don’t pray here, we just chant your name
Curtain Call of the—Curtain Call of the Damned
Hands up high if you’re scarred and you’re shamed
Crowd surf coffins in a human wave
Bow real low when you hear that clang
Curtain drops quick on the
Curtain Call of the Damned
[Outro]
[feedback and distant choir]
House lights up
But you don’t stand
You just stare
With my mark on your hands