[Verse 1]
Fingernails in the stone
As the floor gives way
I’m falling
Every sin that I’ve owned
Claws my back
Keeps calling
Smoke in my lungs
Names on my tongue
I bite down hard
Till the taste turns iron
[Chorus]
I’m getting pulled down
Pulled down
Deeper
Every step I lose a piece of me
Thought I could burn and rise up cleaner
But fire keeps what it needs
If this is freedom
Why am I bleeding?
If I’m awake
Why can’t I breathe?
I crawled through hell for one last meaning
And found a cage that looks like peace
[Verse 2]
Demons wear my face
Same eyes
Same crooked grinning
Offer me my past
If I just stop resisting
Trade scars for shame
Trade blood for blame
I spit in their hands
Still they drink my faith
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
I walked through rivers of teeth
Past towers of ash and glass
Heard my own voice in the screams
“Turn back
This road won’t end”
But I kept marching down
Till the flames thinned out to gray
Till the screams turned into silence
And the chains all slipped away
[Verse 3]
Now the ground is smooth
Sky is blank
And time is frozen
No more horns
No spit
No teeth
Just echoes that stay unspoken
I look for a gate
Just find a wall
No devil in sight
Only my own shadow
Tall
[Chorus]
[Outro]
No fire
Just forever
No pain
Just pressure
I reached the end and learned the story:
Hell was honest
This is purgatory