[Verse 1]
Ash on the altar
Blood in the rain
Sky splits open
Every star a flame
Seven seals cracking
Like bones in God's hand
Trumpets are screaming
Over ruined land
Dust in my lungs
But the dust tastes sweet
Because I know the Judge
Is walking these streets
Every prayer I buried
Claws up through the mire
Halo made of thorns
Crowned in blackened fire
[Chorus]
I am the living nightmare
Writing fear across the sky
Every dream you called a promise
Now it watches as you cry
In the book of burning pages
Your excuses all expire
Run from heaven
Run from hell
You still fall into the pyre
You still fall into
The living nightmare (hey!)
[Verse 2]
Eyes like a river
Red
Running upstream
Angel wings shredded
On the teeth of the machine
Golden streets cracking
Show the graves beneath
Saints start to tremble
In their silver seats
You built your temples
Out of ash and greed
Carved your prophets
From your hunger
From your need
Now the clocks turn backward
Dripping molten hours
Time itself is coughing
Up your rotted towers
[Chorus]
I am the living nightmare
Writing fear across the sky
Every dream you called a promise
Now it watches as you cry
In the book of burning pages
Your excuses all expire
Run from heaven
Run from hell
You still fall into the pyre
You still fall into
The living nightmare (woah)
[Bridge]
[Clean guitars and distant choir]
Children of the serpent
Did you think I did not see?
Every quiet cruelty
Carved your name in fetid stone
Said you stood beside the throne
But your lips were full of seas
Black with broken guarantees
[Chorus]
I am the living nightmare
Last lament in burning air
Every crown you wore in daylight
Turns to worms inside your hair
In the book of broken ages
Every liar meets the fire
Pray for darkness
Pray for light
You still wake into my choir
You still wake inside
The living nightmare (hey!)
The living nightmare