Verse 1
There’s scripture growing underneath my skin
Red-letter verses in the collagen
Every vein spells out a different sin
Every pulse sounds like an organ hymn
I woke up coughing up communion wine
Black feathers tangled in my spine
Heaven keeps calling me “divine”
While my body peels itself alive
Pre-Chorus
Be not afraid
That’s what the angels say
But they got too many eyes
And not enough face
Chorus
Cherubim teeth in the back of my throat
Halo made of vertebrae and smoke
I hear God every time my jaw clicks wrong
Like Revelation singing through a megaphone
Pull my ribs apart like temple gates
Count every plague written in my shape
If this is holiness
Why does it hurt to exist?
Verse 2
There’s locusts nesting in my lungs again
Choir boys chewing through the flesh within
I cracked my sternum just to let them out
Now they hover singing sacred sounds
And my reflection keeps lagging behind
Smiling half a second after I do mine
Something holy crawled inside my head
And now it’s wearing me instead
Pre-Chorus
They call this transformation
I call it being eaten alive
Funny how heaven and horror
Both come covered in light
Chorus
Cherubim teeth in the back of my throat
Halo made of vertebrae and smoke
Seven trumpets ringing in my blood
Every artery flooding gold
Pull my ribs apart like temple gates
Wash me clean in beautiful decay
If this is heaven
Why am I screaming?
Bridge
Tongues of angels stitched into my mouth
I can’t speak now without bleeding out
All my prayers come out inside-out
Muscle, marrow, sacred drought
And the saints all watch from stained glass eyes
While I molt beneath fluorescent light
Still begging God to tell me why
The holiest things always bite
Final Chorus
Cherubim teeth in the back of my throat
Crown of nerves glowing white-hot gold
Biblical horror in a human shape
Genesis written in exposed rib cage
And when I finally split apart
Watch the seraphim crawl from my heart
Singing
Be not afraid
Be not afraid
