*(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
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