False Halo

*(Verse 1)*

You came in dressed like daylight

Gold spilling from your tongue

Every word a perfect scripture

Every lie so softly sung

I knelt before your kindness

Thought mercy wore your face

But serpents learn to shimmer

When they want a warmer place

*(Pre-Chorus)*

I gave you all my hunger

You called it holy need

I offered you devotion

You taught my heart to bleed

*(Chorus)*

You wore a false halo over sharp teeth

Spoke like a savior while stealing sleep

I built you a throne out of everything I had

You smiled like heaven while turning bad

Now the temple is ash, the altar undone

I worshipped a shadow that looked like the sun

Still I taste your name like smoke in my lungs

False halo, false halo

*(Verse 2)*

Your touch was all communion

Your kiss, a sacred theft

You blessed me with affection

Then cursed what little left

I chased your glowing silhouette

Through every darkened hall

The higher that I praised you

The harder I would fall

*(Pre-Chorus)*

I gave you all my hunger

You called it holy need

I offered you devotion

You taught my heart to bleed

*(Chorus)*

You wore a false halo over sharp teeth

Spoke like a savior while stealing sleep

I built you a throne out of everything I had

You smiled like heaven while turning bad

Now the temple is ash, the altar undone

I worshipped a shadow that looked like the sun

Still I taste your name like smoke in my lungs

False halo, false halo

*(Bridge – soft to explosive)*

Did you love me

Or just love being adored?

Was I chosen

Or only easily ignored?

I see the cracks inside your light

I hear the hunger in your hymn

The god I begged to save my life

Was just the dark wearing skin

*(Breakdown)*

BOW NO MORE

BREAK THE DOOR

KILL THE IDOL

END THE WAR

*(Final Chorus)*

You wore a false halo over sharp teeth

Spoke like a savior while stealing sleep

I built you a throne out of everything I had

You smiled like heaven while turning bad

Now the temple is ash, the altar undone

I worshipped a shadow that looked like the sun

Still I taste your name like smoke in my lungs

False halo… I’m finally gone