**(Verse 1)**
The house sits heavy on the Devil’s acre,
Where every moonrise is a debt collector.
You’ve got a past tied up in barbed wire knots,
And a quiet grave dug deep in your thoughts.
I didn't come here just to see the surface shine,
I came to kneel right at your boundary line.
The rain beats down like judgment on the tin,
But darlin', that’s where my devotion begins.
*(Vocals are low, resigned, almost a growl)*
**(Pre-Chorus)**
I’ve walked too long in the shadow of the gallows' tree,
To turn back now from what you offer me.
Show me the broken place where the daylight runs out,
And I'll sing you the truth that you have no doubt about.
**(Chorus)**
And I swear on the cold, black earth that I’ll **touch your heart**
Before I ever claim your lips to tear them apart.
I'll earn that trembling sigh, that fearful, sweet risk.
Then crawling between your thighs, sealed with a fatal kiss,
Gonna lay my blood down, gonna **leave my love in you,**
Like a secret kept for a thousand years, dark and true.
*(Instrumentation swells, vocals hit a powerful, tormented harmony)*
**(Verse 2)**
You said your soul was rented, stained by the stain,
A field of fire that never sees the rain.
But every saint was once a sinner, baby, don’t you fret,
We’ve got a life sentence that we haven't served yet.
I see the ghosts you carry in the hall,
But I'm here to build a shadow taller than them all.
This ain't just want, it’s a desperate, binding need,
A poisoned flower planted from a wicked seed.
*(Acoustic guitar riff is dark and sparse, electric guitar adds a slow, mournful slide)*
**(Pre-Chorus)**
I’ve walked too long in the shadow of the gallows' tree,
To turn back now from what you offer me.
Show me the broken place where the daylight runs out,
And I'll sing you the truth that you have no doubt about.
**(Chorus)**
And I swear on the cold, black earth that I’ll **touch your heart**
Before I ever claim your lips to tear them apart.
I'll earn that trembling sigh, that fearful, sweet risk.
Then crawling between your thighs, sealed with a fatal kiss,
Gonna lay my blood down, gonna **leave my love in you,**
Like a secret kept for a thousand years, dark and true.
**(Bridge)**
*(Music softens to just acoustic guitar and bass)*
The clock stopped ticking the moment that we met.
This debt is written in stone, no chance to forget.
You and I are bound to the ending we create,
No heaven and no hell can separate our fate.
**(Outro)**
*(Music slowly builds back to the heavy, driving rhythm)*
Yeah, **leave my love in you...**
Bound, dark, and true...
Vows written in the clay...
*(Final chord rings out, then decays into heavy feedback/reverb)*
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