[Verse 1]
I come up when the moon get thin
Black coat drag on the gravel skin
Your front door creak, then the room goes dim
I smell fear like a blade in gin
I keep score with a patient grin
One wrong word and the walls lean in
Cold hands fresh with a paper cut
Still I press that luck, still I press that luck
[Pre-Chorus]
Say my name, then bite your tongue
Hear that snap in the air when I come?
No prayer left, no place to run
Now the whole house hum like a loaded gun
[Chorus]
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Talk too loud, now your breath go numb
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Say it once, then the night come done
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Keep that lie till the dawn stay gone
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
One clean cut and the damage sung
[Verse 2]
I leave marks on the doorframe high
Scratch my shape where the dead things hide
You keep staring at my half-lit eyes
Like a bad thought dressed in church clothes nice
I move slow with a spider’s weight
Every step got a locked-in fate
You can bolt but the latch still sings
And the floorboards know my name when it rings
[Pre-Chorus]
Say my name, then bite your tongue
Hear that snap in the air when I come?
No prayer left, no place to run
Now the whole house hum like a loaded gun
[Chorus]
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Talk too loud, now your breath go numb
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Say it once, then the night come done
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Keep that lie till the dawn stay gone
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
One clean cut and the damage sung
[Bridge]
I don’t need a crowd, I don’t need a crown
Just one weak spot and I’m sliding down
You hear that click when the light switch dies?
That’s the hush before the truth arrive
[Chorus]
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Talk too loud, now your breath go numb
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Say it once, then the night come done
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
Keep that lie till the dawn stay gone
Wretched tongue, wretched tongue
One clean cut and the damage sung