[Intro]
Stained glass
In my throat
Every word
Cuts as it glows
[Verse 1]
You crowned me in cracked porcelain
Called the fractures "faith" and "grace"
Hung prayers like rusted ornaments
On every tremor in my face
You drew borders on my ribcage
Red markers running out of ink
Told me breathing was rebellion
Taught me how to never blink
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm a sermon
Spoken backwards
All the verses
Spilling ash
You said mercy
Tastes like iron
On a tongue that
Dares to ask
[Chorus]
This glass cathedral starts to shake
Every lie you laid begins to break
Hear the windows scream in colored rain
As I tear your shadow from my name
I am the fracture you can't frame
Burning halo
Uncontained
Let the rafters crack beneath the strain
I won't bow inside your glass domain
[Verse 2]
You choreographed my confessions
Every gesture
Every fall
Tied my fears to thin piano wire
Let them dangle in your hall
Your whisper was a guillotine
Swinging over every choice
You tuned my pulse to your trembling hands
Tried to ventriloquize my voice
[Pre-Chorus]
I'm the question
In your scripture
Blurring ink and
Blinding light
You built pulpits
Over quicksand
Called my sinking
Holy right
[Chorus]
This glass cathedral starts to shake
Every lie you laid begins to break
Hear the windows scream in colored rain
As I tear your shadow from my name
I am the fracture you can't frame
Burning halo
Uncontained
Let the rafters crack beneath the strain
I won't bow inside your glass domain
[Breakdown]
Rip the choir from my throat (from my throat)
Let it roar
Let it choke (let it choke)
Brick by brittle
Breaking bones
I won't worship on this throne
Kneel?
Never
Bleed?
Better
Than live forever in your tether
[Breakdown – Part II]
(hey!)
Crash
Crash
Crash the crown that kept me blind
Smash
Smash
Every script you wrote inside
Drag your altar to the flood
Paint your scripture in my blood
If redemption has a cost
I'll pay it with the fate you lost (yeah)
[Bridge]
You said:
"Child
You are chosen
If you never walk outside"
But my pulse picked the lock
On your sanctified divide
Now the organ drowns in thunder
As your icons start to peel
All the saints fall from their pedestals
Finally forced to kneel
[Bridge – Refrain]
I was the lamb
You dressed in chains
Now I'm the storm
Inside the nave
I was the echo
Begging to fade
Now I'm the fire
Under your stained parade (woah)
[Chorus]
This glass cathedral starts to shake
Every lie you laid begins to break
Hear the windows scream in colored rain
As I tear your shadow from my name
I am the fracture you can't frame
Burning halo
Uncontained
Let the rafters crack beneath the strain
I won't bow inside your glass domain
[Final Breakdown / Outro]
[whispered
Then building]
Let it fall
Let it fall
Let it all come down
[full voice]
When the last pane shatters in the sun
I'll stand laughing in the ruin I've become
No more halos made of sharpened doubt
If this is faith
I'm casting it out
Let the dust write what you never could
I was never yours
I was never understood
Just a voice
In the aftermath rain
Walking barefoot
From your glass domain