(Verse 1)
Every year it rises, that too-bright, burning sky,
Christmas lights like fire, and the crowds just multiply.
People push like something’s chasing them from deep below,
And inside me wakes the anger that I thought had let me go.
(Pre-Chorus)
No peace, no silent holy night — just masks about to break,
And in the distant jingle bells I hear the shadows wake.
(Chorus)
Black Winter Bells — ringing loud and ringing wrong,
Sounding like cold metal scraping hearts that don’t belong.
Black Winter Bells — and I scream against the snow,
’Cause in this feast of love the truth cuts deeper than we show.
(Verse 2)
Candles bleed like crimson wax on tired, trembling skin,
Fairy lights hang choking tight around the night we’re buried in.
Everyone demands a smile, but no one holds it long enough,
So I walk with sharpened senses through this world that’s turning rough.
(Pre-Chorus)
Underneath the carols, there’s a darkness humming low,
As if winter itself is whispering what we refuse to know.
(Chorus)
Black Winter Bells — ringing loud and ringing wrong,
Sounding like cold metal scraping hearts that don’t belong.
Black Winter Bells — and I scream against the snow,
’Cause in this feast of love the truth cuts deeper than we show.
(Bridge – more aggressive)
Everyone is running blind,
No one sees the cracks inside.
Lights are blinding, lies are binding —
Tell me who still dares to fight?
Hear the choir of frozen voices
sing a hymn no one can claim:
Christmas looks so pure from outside,
but inside — it’s aflame.
(Final Chorus – heavier)
Black Winter Bells — echo like a war cry through the cold,
Falling down like shadows that refuse to lose their hold.
Black Winter Bells — as I walk through ice and ash and past,
This Christmas chaos eats the warmth I once believed would last —
and buries it beneath the winter’s grasp.
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