When Night Hungers

[Verse 1]
Curtains breathe
Like a lung in fever
Candles lean
Dripping hours thin
On the glass
Their fingers trace a circle
Teeth on names
As the dark pours in
Footsteps
On the stair that never ends
Soft claws
On the lock
On the light
They whisper
Every promise of an end
To the ache
Of my stubborn
Beating life
[Chorus]
When night hungers
It calls my bones by number
Says
“Lay down
Let the red river run”
They want my pulse
For their cold
Cursed thunder
But I won’t close my eyes
I won’t bow to the sun
I will not die
When night hungers
[Verse 2]
Moon hooked
Like a fang above the steeple
Organ keys
Quiver under dust
Mirror cracks
At the brush of their reflection
They paint my throat
In a dream of rust
They circle
Like wolves that once were lovers
Breath sweet
With a thousand stolen years
“Just one bite
And the burning will be over”
I taste their
Beautiful
Empty fear (oh)
[Chorus]
When night hungers
It calls my bones by number
Says
“Lay down
Let the red river run”
They want my pulse
For their cold
Cursed thunder
But I won’t close my eyes
I won’t bow to the sun
I will not die
When night hungers
[Bridge]
[Violin and organ swell
Drums drop to toms
Vocal almost spoken]
I stain the floor
With a circle of iron
Mark my skin
With a rusted creed
“If you want
This fragile
Failing kingdom
Come and choke
On a heart that bleeds”
[Full band slams back in]
I am the wound
That refuses to open
I am the grave
That spits you out
Take my fear
Turn it into fire
Hear me live
Hear me curse your drought (hey!)
[Chorus]
When night hungers
It calls my bones by number
Says
“Lay down
Let the red river run”
They want my pulse
For their cold
Cursed thunder
But I won’t close my eyes
I won’t bow to the sun
I will not die
When night hungers
I will not die
When night hungers

metal, Crushing 80s doom metal with female vocals; slow, monolithic drums and palm-muted guitars under a church-organ drone, occasional double-time fills into towering chord hits. Violin threads eerie, dissonant lines between riffs, then swells into melodic countermelodies in the chorus. Vocals start in a haunted lower register, climbing into wailing belts over the hook, with stacked harmonies on key words and a final, stretched-out scream riding a sustain-heavy guitar and organ chord., doom metal, female vocals, violin