Vultures in the Stadium

Sirens in the rafters

Smoke in my lungs, then I crackwards

Mask on, black flag, bad actors

Whole crowd buzzin' like reactors

Teeth grit, steel toe in the pit

Blood on the tongue, yeah I’m done bein’ “kid”

Stare down fear till the fear looks away

I don’t pray, I obey my rage

Cold eyes, warm hands on the chain

Pull that, full blast, unchain the strain

Grit in the gears when I grind my name

Carved in the door of the hall of shame

Hear that drip from the ceiling

That’s the poison, that’s the feeling

Every scar, every secret

I’m the blade, they’re the sequence

Vultures in the stadium, circlin’ above me

They wanna see me break, but they still gotta love me (yeah)

I turn my pain into thunder when I stomp on the floor

Make the whole world shake

You want war? Say no more

Dead stare, march slow through the smoke

Dark thoughts lace up round my throat

Heart like a drum when it beats off-time

Every misstep just feeds my climb

Iron in my breath when I spit this grime

Barbed wire tongue, every word cross-line

Crowd go still when the bassline drop

Then we all jump high when the chains unlock

Feel that crack in the ceiling

Let the ash rain down, unsealing

All the ghosts I’ve been keepin’

Now they chant with me, screaming

They say “calm down”

I say “burn it”

They say “stand back”

I say “earn it”

Let the choir sing doom in the back of my head

While the kick hits hard like a pact with the dead

If the crown won’t fit, I’ll melt it, mold it

Put it on crooked, still kings, still morbid