When The Wolves Come To Collect

[Verse 1]
Teeth marks on the ledger
Red ink on my hands
Every deal I signed in anger
Built on borrowed sand
Your shadow in my doorway
Smells like sweat and debt
You say you came for closure
I hear a quiet threat
[Chorus]
When the wolves come to collect
They don't knock
They break the frame
Every promise I neglected
Comes back calling out my name
Claws on the kitchen tiles
Breath hot against my neck
I pay the price for every lie
When the wolves come to collect
[Verse 2]
Names carved in the table
Dates scratched in the paint
Every night I fed my hunger
Starved the saints
Your footsteps in the hallway
Slow
Patient
Exact
You told me there'd be interest
Now you're here to take it back
[Chorus]
When the wolves come to collect
They don't knock
They break the frame
Every promise I neglected
Comes back calling out my name
Claws on the kitchen tiles
Breath hot against my neck
I pay the price for every lie
When the wolves come to collect
[Bridge]
You said the hunger had a cost (oh)
I laughed and drank it down
Now every echo of your voice
Is another body on the ground
So take the house
Take the heart
Take the pieces that are left
I made a kingdom out of scars
You made a treaty out of death
[Chorus]
When the wolves come to collect
They don't knock
They break the frame
Every promise I neglected
Comes back calling out my name
Claws on the kitchen tiles
Breath hot against my neck
I pay the price for what I am
When the wolves come to collect (collect, collect)

metal, Grinding modern metal with male vocals: double-kick bursts, drop-tuned chugs, and jagged riffs under snarled verses, then a huge, melodic-but-menacing chorus with layered gang shouts. Sparse, tense bridge that drops to bass and drums before a final, explosive reprise, guitars doubled wide and vocals pushed right up front.