Nails in My Hands

[Verse 1]
Wake up choking on the shame
Same stain on a different day
Hands clean
But my heart’s still rusted
Pray hard
But I don’t trust it
Mud on my boots from the places I swore
I would never go back to anymore
Every step feels like a loaded gun
Pointed at the One I run from
[Chorus]
I keep falling with these nails in my hands
But You took the scars
I don’t understand
I’m chained to the weight I swore I’d leave
Still You say my name
Tell me “just believe”
I break
I bleed
I crawl
I cry
You don’t walk away
You stay by my side
In the wreck I made of this life I planned
You reach through the dark
Pull me to stand
[Verse 2]
I hear Your words in a cracked old page
But I spit back rage in a quiet cage
Talk big faith with a forked
Split tongue
Then I run with the wolves when the bell is rung
I wear that cross like a painted mask
Sunday shine
Then I snap like glass
But when my halo hits the floor again
You’re still there
Calling me Your friend
[Chorus]
I keep falling with these nails in my hands
But You took the scars
I don’t understand
I’m chained to the weight I swore I’d leave
Still You say my name
Tell me “just believe”
I break
I bleed
I crawl
I cry
You don’t walk away
You stay by my side
In the wreck I made of this life I planned
You reach through the dark
Pull me to stand
[Bridge]
[Spoken-growl
Half-time]
I am the liar
I am the thief
I am the riot
Tearing up my own belief
[Build
Screamed]
Yet You
Call me
Child
Not
Enemy
You walked that hill I built with my pride
Took my curse
Put it deep inside
Every hammer swing
Every hateful phrase
You turned my wrath into amazing grace (yeah)
[Chorus]
I keep falling with these nails in my hands
But You took the scars
Now I understand
These chains crack open when I believe
Your blood bought the breath in my lungs to breathe
I break
I bleed
I rise
I fight
You light up the holes in my deepest night
In the wreck I made of this life I planned
You reach through the dark
Pull me to stand
[Outro]
Fade of the echoes
I’m still not pure
But I’m held by a love that is strong and sure
Stumbling forward through the smoke and fire
Eyes on the cross
Not my old desire

metal, Downtuned nu metal with male vocals, swung groove riffs and chugging palm-mutes under tense verses; chorus explodes with wide power chords, gang shouts, and soaring melodic top-line. Sub-bass locks to a punchy kick, tom-heavy fills lead into a half-time bridge with spoken-word intensity that erupts into a double-time final chorus. Gritty textures, whispered layers, and feedback swells heighten the push-pull of doubt and surrender., nu metal