When The Wolves Come To Collect

Teeth marks on the ledger

Blood on my lips

Every deal I signed in anger

Built on borrowed sand

Your shadow in my doorway

Smells like sweat and death

You say you came for closure

I hear a quiet threat

When the wolves come to collect

They don't knock

They break the frame

Every promise I neglected

Comes back calling out my name

Claws on the kitchen tiles

Breath hot against my neck

I pay the price for every life

When the wolves come to collect

Names carved in the table

Dates scratched in the paint

Every night I fed my hunger I

Starved the saints

Your footsteps in the hallway

Slowed

Patient

And echoed

You told me there'd be interest

Now you're here to take it back

When the wolves come to collect

They don't knock

They break the frame

Every promise I neglected

Comes back calling out my name

Claws on the kitchen tiles

Breath hot against my neck

I pay the price for every life

When the wolves come to collect

You said the hunger had a cost (oh)

I laughed and drank it down

Now every echo of your voice

Is another body on the ground

So take this house

Take this heart

Take the pieces that are left

I made a kingdom out of scars

You made a treaty out of death

When the wolves come to collect

They don't knock

They break the frame

Every promise I neglected

Comes back calling out my name

Claws on the kitchen tiles

Breath hot against my neck

I pay the price for what I am

When the wolves come to collect (collect, collect)