Cathedral Of Flies

*(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