[Verse 1]
Ash in my teeth
Grin like a cracked old mask
Lanterns bleed green
On the bones in the river grass
Circle of crows
Carving their hymn in the sky
I light that black smoke
Watch the colors eat my eyes (yeah)
[Chorus]
Death pagan dreams
Crawling up out of the peat and steam
Blood on the altar of everything
I drink that night
I let it sing
Death pagan dreams
Teeth in the bark and my torn-up knees
Hands in the dirt where the old gods feed
I give my breath
They take the lead
[Verse 2]
Maggots in wine
Sip till the daylight bends
Tongues made of lime
Hissing old names again
She walks in slow
Veins full of mercury rain
We trade our halos
For a mouthful of graveyard flame (oh)
[Chorus]
Death pagan dreams
Crawling up out of the peat and steam
Blood on the altar of everything
I drink that night
I let it sing
Death pagan dreams
Teeth in the bark and my torn-up knees
Hands in the dirt where the old gods feed
I give my breath
They take the lead
[Bridge]
[Guitars lurch into half-time
Warped blues bends wail under whispered vocals]
Candles melt backwards
Shadows chew through the wall
Who did I bury
When I answered that call?
I see my own face
On the thing in the trees
It hums my old prayer
In a voice that sounds like me (yeah)
[Chorus]
Death pagan dreams
Crawling up out of the peat and steam
Blood on the altar of everything
I drink that night
I let it sing
Death pagan dreams
Teeth in the bark and my torn-up knees
Hands in the dirt where the old gods feed
I give my breath
They take the lead (take the lead)