Rust on My Halo

Boot prints burned in the factory dust

Clock on the wall keeps spitting out rust

Hands full of scars

Pockets full of smoke

Laugh so hard at this heavy joke

Got rust on my halo

Oil on my crown

Engine in my chest keeps breaking down

I’m a half-dead saint in a secondhand coat

Screaming hallelujah with a cracked-up throat (yeah)

Steel-toe sins on a one-way track

Sirens sing while they stab my back

Ash in my lungs

Gravel in my grin

Every door locked

I kick my way in (hey!)

Got rust on my halo

Oil on my crown

Engine in my chest keeps breaking down

I’m a half-dead saint in a secondhand coat

Screaming hallelujah with a cracked-up throat

You can chain these boots

But the soul won’t drag

You can tape my mouth

But I’ll bleed this flag

Black coffee heart

And a barroom prayer

If the sky falls down

I’ll be standing there (standing there)

Got rust on my halo

Oil on my crown

Engine in my chest keeps breaking down

I’m a half-dead saint in a secondhand coat

Screaming hallelujah with a cracked-up throat

Rust on my halo

Still I rise slow

Step after step

Through the smoke I go