Ink of the Unforgiven

[Verse 1]
Needle hums
Bathroom light flickers
Your name curls crimson
Down my ribs
Every letter
A little confession
Every line
A locked cellar door
I spell you slow
S… like the stain on the carpet
I drag the ink deep
Where the bleach can’t reach
[Chorus] (female vocal)
I am the reckoning
Carved in your bones
Every name on your skin will drag you home
They’re coming
They’re coming
The walls are giving in
You can’t wash out the ghosts you pinned into your skin
[Verse 2]
Mirror cracked
Still shows you smiling
Lipstick smears
In the back of my head
I trace your lips
With a poisoned needle
Circle the date
You forgot to forget
These aren’t hearts
They’re body-count tally marks
A garden of scars
That never forgives
[Chorus] (female vocal)
I am the reckoning
Carved in your bones
Every name on your skin will drag you home
They’re screaming
They’re screaming
From under your grin
You can’t hide from the hands you pulled into your skin
[Bridge]
[music drops to half-time
Low growl over toms]
They watch when I sleep
Count every breath
Cold-fingered choir
Chanting my sins
[female vocal enters
Higher register]
We’re the ones you buried deep
We’re the eyes you cannot shut
Every line you drew on flesh
Now is spelling out your cut
[Chorus] (female lead, male screams underneath)
We are the reckoning
Burned in your bones
Every name on your skin will drag you home
We’re burning
We’re burning
Through muscle and grin
You will choke on the ink of the unforgiven
[Chorus] (final, extended)
We are the reckoning
Burned in your bones
Every name on your skin will drag you home
We’re coming
We’re coming
The trial begins
You will drown in the blood of the marks on your skin

metal, Dual-vocal modern metal: jagged palm-muted guitars and double-kick under male growl/scream verses, shifting into soaring female power-chorus. Dark chromatic riffs, chugging low-tuned rhythm, eerie lead line mirroring the hook. Bridge drops to half-time with whispered male vocal and tom-driven build, then explodes into a final, layered-chorus climax., male vocals, female vocals