[Intro]
Shadows in my teeth
Fire in my lungs
I wake up tasting sulfur
Hear my father’s tongue
[Verse 1]
Claws on the ceiling
Scratching out my name
Red smoke breathing
Through the keyhole flame
Eyes in the mirror
Don’t look quite like mine
Crooked little halo
Dripping blackened brine
[Chorus]
I’m the nightmare of the devil
Waking him up in a sweat (yeah)
Every time I close my eyes
I drag him out of his depths
I see my face in his reflection
Hear my laugh in his abyss
I’m the nightmare of the devil
And the devil is my kin
[Verse 2]
Kitchen light flickers
Coffee tastes like ash
Birthmark burning
Like a brand that laughs
Old church records
Pages torn away
My last name etched
In the margins of decay
[Pre-Chorus]
Who wrote my bones?
Who wired this rage?
Why do I dream
Of a furnace cage?
[Chorus]
I’m the nightmare of the devil
Waking him up in a sweat (hey!)
Every time I close my eyes
I drag him out of his depths
I see my face in his reflection
Hear my laugh in his abyss
I’m the nightmare of the devil
And the devil is my kin
[Bridge]
He said
“Son
You were never lost
You were buried in my skin”
I said
“If I’m cut from your cloth
I’ll tear right through your sins”
Bloodline like barbed wire
Wrapped around my wrist
Every link a promise
Every promise twists
[Instrumental Break]
[Long guitar solo over ascending
Then collapsing progression]
[Breakdown]
I am the fire
You tried to hide
I am the spawn
You left outside
If you’re the darkness
Under the skin
I’m the crack
Where the daylight slams in (yeah)
[Chorus]
I’m the nightmare of the devil
Waking him up in a sweat
Every time I close my eyes
I drag him out of his depths
I see my face in his reflection
Hear my laugh in his abyss
I’m the nightmare of the devil
And the devil is my kin
[Outro]
Breathing brimstone
Sleeping light
Father
Mother
Same black sky
If hell is home
Then let me in
I’ll be the plague
That haunts your sin