Stinger Ritual

Yeah

Tail up, fangs out

Step close

Get laid out

Walk in the room like a hex in the doorway

Eyes on red, I’ve been sleeping in warfare

Pins in the doll, put your face in the corkboard

Mouth still talking? I’m cutting the sound cord

Venom in the veins when I write out my rage

Little black book, put your name on a page

Circle of chalk where your last words echo

Shadow on the wall when the fuse say “let go”

Sick of these clowns with the hollow bravado

They soft in the middle like overcooked pasta

I’m cold in the middle, exoskeleton armor

Sting so silent, paramedic need karma

I’m a scorpion, step in the ring, I promise you bleed

Got a bomb in my palm, whole block on my creed

Voodoo on the tongue, I curse what you need

Say my name once

Watch your whole life leave

I’m a scorpion, scorpion, buried in your dreams

Got a bomb in my palm, blow holes in your schemes

Voodoo on the tongue, I talk and you freeze

Say my name once

Watch your whole life leave

Hands on the thread of your heartbeat, tug that

Play with your fate like a switch, then shrug that

Mask on the shelf, I don’t need to pretend

I’m the storm at the start and the flame at the end

Got a circle in the dirt with your footprint centered

Salt in the cut, let the wound feel tender

Smoke in the air, taste iron and brimstone

Every step you take got my mark in the skin tone

I don’t argue with insects, I walk through the hive

Put the torch to the nest, watch the stories they write

Say they deadly but they crawl when the timer tick

Hear that click?

Whole crowd hit the ground quick

Tail curl, spine straight, I don’t backtrack

[low vocal register] Venom drip, slow burn through the backchat

Eyes roll white when the chant get louder

Name in the dust, then ash, then powder

[whispered vocals] Count down

Three… two… gone

One breath left?

I own that one