*(Verse 1)*
You arrived in a dress of mourning
Perfume cut with funeral rain
Smiled like moonlight on a gravestone
Soft enough to hide the pain
I let you into every chamber
Every locked and starving room
You hung your portraits in my ribcage
Turned my heartbeat to a tomb
*(Pre-Chorus)*
Your hands were silk around my throat
Your prayers were poison dressed as hope
I drank them slow, I called it love
While crows kept circling above
*(Chorus)*
I built you a cathedral of flies
Candles made of sleepless nights
You crowned yourself with all my wounds
Then danced beneath the dying light
You fed me honey mixed with rust
Turned my faith to rot and dust
Now I hear your name when dead things sing
In the cathedral of flies
*(Verse 2)*
Your kiss was winter in a vein
Your touch, a blade beneath the skin
You left your fingerprints in bruises
Like scripture carved by discipline
I watched the mirrors start to blister
Watched the walls begin to breathe
Every promise birthed maggots
Every vow had teeth beneath
*(Pre-Chorus)*
Your hands were silk around my throat
Your prayers were poison dressed as hope
I drank them slow, I called it love
While crows kept circling above
*(Chorus)*
I built you a cathedral of flies
Candles made of sleepless nights
You crowned yourself with all my wounds
Then danced beneath the dying light
You fed me honey mixed with rust
Turned my faith to rot and dust
Now I hear your name when dead things sing
In the cathedral of flies
*(Bridge – whispered to eruption)*
Did you hear me begging
Through the dirt you filled my lungs with?
Did you feel me breaking
Or just enjoy the sound of it?
*(Breakdown)*
RIP THE HALO FROM YOUR SKULL
LET THE WORMS ANNOUNCE YOUR LOVE
I BURIED MYSELF TO KEEP YOU WARM
NOW RISE AND FACE WHAT YOU’VE BECOME
*(Final Chorus)*
I burned down your cathedral of flies
Lit the dark with open eyes
No more kneeling to your hunger
No more choking on your lies
Though your shadow stains the dust
Though your ghost still tastes like rust
I won’t hear your name when dead things sing
Your cathedral dies with me