[Intro]
Fog on the ceiling
Cold air in my lungs
Steps echo, cathedral
Dead tongues, beating drums
Breath in the silence
Shadow on the throne
Every halo cracked
Every saint made of stone
[Verse 1]
Walk through the grave in my chest
Names on the walls of my stress
Every regret in a black hood
Asking me which one is next
I been shaking hands with the fear
Sharp teeth leaning close to my ear
Telling me “sleep in the river”
I stare back, crystal clear
Skin like a mask on a mask
Past in a flask, I pass
Crosses carved in the desk
Classroom ghosts still laugh
Heart like a locked-up vault
Rust on the code I lost
I’ve been dancing with fault
Counting the cost, yeah
[Chorus]
Death in my head, but it’s old news
Been here before in my worn shoes
Inner demons in a circle round me
Say my name but they’ll never crown me
I don’t break, I bend, then rise
Black sky blinking in my eyes
If the reaper wanna step around me
Tell him “sit down, you don’t own me”
[Verse 2]
Open my ribs like a gate (hey!)
Something dark waiting, late
Smiling with my crooked face
Mirror can’t hold that weight
I got a room with a list
Every mistake that exists
Hung like portraits, twisted
Framed in a bitter mist
Whispers crawling up my spine
“Come back, cross that line”
I just breathe, keep time
Turn that fear into grind
Every funeral thought I fed
Became a seed in my head
Now it’s a forest of dread
I walk through it, calm instead
[Chorus]
Death in my head, but it’s old news
Been here before in my worn shoes
Inner demons in a circle round me
Say my name but they’ll never crown me
I don’t break, I bend, then rise
Black sky blinking in my eyes
If the reaper wanna step around me
Tell him “sit down, you don’t own me”
[Bridge]
[Beat falls back, whispered doubles, choir swells]
They call, they call
From the cracks in the wall
From the ink on my palm
From the bruise in the calm
I crawl, then run
Through the dark to the drum
If the end gonna come
Then it comes when I’m done
[Chorus]
Death in my head, but it’s old news
Been here before in my worn shoes
Inner demons in a circle round me
Say my name but they’ll never crown me
I don’t break, I bend, then rise
Black sky blinking in my eyes
If the reaper wanna step around me
Tell him “sit down, you don’t own me”