[Intro]
[violin screeching above a slow
Pounding riff]
Wake up
Smell the ash
Lanterns breathing
Through the trash
[Verse 1]
Dust in the chapel
Brick red rain
Paper-thin promise
“Just cure the pain”
Saw teeth singing
Through beast and bone
Every prayer answered
With a dying groan
[Pre-Chorus]
I hear the choir in the rafters
Throats full of rust and prayer
They say the answer’s in the blood
But it’s rotting in the air (yeah)
[Chorus]
Pale blood calling my name
I walk the hunt
I burn in flame
Moon hangs low like a fractured eye
“Fear the old blood”
As the gods drip from the sky
Pale blood
Drag me under
Rip this hunter clean asunder
If I wake
May I forget this dream
Or drown in the dark between
[Verse 2]
Library of lunatics
Eyes in the shelves
All of these scholars
Unmade themselves
Spider-limbed sermons
Claw at the dome
Every bell ringing
“Child
Come home”
[Pre-Chorus]
I trade my body for secrets
Stitched by a surgeon’s hand
If insight is a burning star
Then set fire to this land (hey)
[Chorus]
Pale blood calling my name
I walk the hunt
I burn in flame
Moon hangs low like a fractured eye
“Fear the old blood”
As the gods drip from the sky
Pale blood
Drag me under
Rip this hunter clean asunder
If I wake
May I forget this dream
Or drown in the dark between
[Bridge]
[tempo shift
Violins take the lead]
Cage on my head
Choir in my skull
Tiny voices
Screaming “PLUCK IT FULL”
Kneel by the cradle
Sworn to ascend
Find only silence
At the nightmare’s end
[Breakdown]
Cut the cord
Cut the choir
Salt my name
Feed the fire (hey)
Moonlight
Rise
Split the womb
Let the sea of stars
Flood this tomb
[Chorus]
Pale blood calling my name
I walk the hunt
I burn in flame
Moon hangs low like a fractured eye
“Fear the old blood”
As the gods drip from the sky
Pale blood
Take this hunter
Crack my mask and pull me under
If I wake
May I forget this dream
Or be crowned in the dark between
[Outro]
[violin tremolo over fading guitars]
Pale blood whisper
“Just one more night”
Another stranger
Lost to the light