[Intro]
Low bells in the dark
Footsteps in the dust
Cold hands on my heart
Hear them
They remember us [whispered vocals]
[Verse 1]
I walk through the rust and roses
Names worn flat on every stone
Someone sings beneath the floorboards
Every echo calls me home
[Chorus]
This is the hymn of the forsaken
Voices that history tried to break and
Still we rise from the cracks in the pavement
Singing out
Singing out
Never vacant
Hymn of the hollow and the taken
Shaking the heavens till they awaken
Turn up the silence till it’s shaking
This is the hymn of the forsaken
[Verse 2]
Their prayers stain the broken arches
Ash and incense in my lungs
Every wound a word that’s burning
Every curse a sharpened tongue
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Kyrie for the castaway
Crucified in alleyways
Sanctus for the thrown-away
Hear them
Hear them
Hear them
[choir swells]
Every scar a hallelujah
Spat-out saints and shattered crowns
If they will not kneel before us
We will bring the altar down
[Chorus]