[Verse 1]
Candles burn down to the bone
Wax on the floor like melted ghosts
Your name carved deep in the back of the pew
My throat's a chapel that can't hold you
Knees on the wood till feeling fades
Every word tastes like yesterday
Stained glass eyes staring straight through
All these colors
None of them you
[Chorus]
I kept on begging the sky to break
But it never rewinds
It only takes
All of these prayers in my lungs run out
You're still gone
I'm still loud
Singing to a god that won't look down
Empty church in my mouth
[Verse 2]
Choir in my head won’t quiet down
Every soft note turns into shouts
Pages curl up
Verses blur
Your old hymn shirt still smells like earth
Hands together
Fingers interlace
Around the echo of your face
If mercy moves
It moved too late
All that’s left is this iron ache
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
I whisper your birthday into the dark
Count every year like a missing part
If faith was a bridge
It broke mid-air
Left me hanging between here and nowhere
[guitars stagger in hits
Drums building]
So let the organ shake
Let the angels sing
If they can’t touch time
They can’t change a thing
[Chorus]