Emerald Gospels

[Verse 1]
Green stone
Buried under courthouse floors
Ink-black
In the margins of your laws
I bit down
On a word they said was cursed
It bloomed
Like a cancer and a church
You crown
Every chain like it's divine
Gold teeth
On a mouth that speaks in fines
But the cracks
In your code all spell my name
I read
Every loophole in your flame
[Chorus]
These emerald gospels in my veins
Teach me how to burn the cage
I carve your keys of Solomon
Into the bars you built around us
If truth is treason
Let me hang
Gnostic scars across your flags
I found the god you tried to hide
And it looks like us on the other side
[Verse 2]
Black sun
On the ceiling of my cell
Soft voice
Saying “know yourself” in hell
Thirteen
Hidden joints in every lock
One twist
And the judge becomes the dock
You keep
Every question under glass
Sing praise
To the gravity of class
But the breath
In my chest won’t bow or kneel
I break
Every idol made of steel
[Chorus]
These emerald gospels in my veins
Teach me how to burn the cage
I carve your keys of Solomon
Into the bars you built around us
If truth is treason
Let me hang
Gnostic scars across your flags
I found the god you tried to hide
And it looks like us on the other side
[Bridge]
[Guitars drop to a slow
Droning crawl
Distant choirs swelling]
As above
So below
If they own the sky
We own the shadow
Mind made
Of forbidden page
Heart beats
Like a war in chains
(I won’t bow, I won’t bow)
[Chorus]
These emerald gospels in my veins
Teach me how to burn the cage
I carve your keys of Solomon
Into the bars you built around us
If truth is treason
Let me hang
Gnostic scars across your flags
I found the god you tried to hide
And it looks like us on the other side

metal, Crushing nu-doom hybrid: drop-tuned guitars crawling over sub-heavy drones, half-spoken/half-screamed male vocals. Verses sit in eerie, ambient space with detuned choir pads and scraped cymbals; chorus detonates with syncopated chugs, layered screams, and a monolithic kick. Bridge opens into a haunting, reverb-soaked chant over distant toms, then slams back into a final, dragging breakdown., ambient, nu metal