[Verse 1]
Stone in my hands
Tablets on my back
Desert in my throat
Promise in the cracks
Thunder in the camp
Blood on the door
Prophets in rags
Screaming at the court
[Pre-Chorus]
All these laws
On my skin like scars
Every word
Like a prison bar
[Chorus]
Old testament
Written in the cut and the bruise
New testament
Bleeding through the pages I use
I am the war
Between the altar and the cross
Two voices in my head
One mercy
One cost (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Flood in my chest
Fire in my lungs
Lion in the pit
Psalms on my tongue
Whispers in the dark
Bread in my hand
Carpenter’s son
Drawing lines in the sand
[Pre-Chorus]
All these rules
Rust around my soul
Then that grace
Crashes through the mold
[Chorus]
Old testament
Written in the cut and the bruise
New testament
Bleeding through the pages I use
I am the war
Between the altar and the cross
Two voices in my head
One mercy
One cost (hey)
[Bridge]
Am I the blade? (am I the lamb?)
Am I the flood or the dry
Cracked land?
Tear the veil
Let the dust catch flame
Same holy fire
Just a different name
[Chorus]
Old testament
Burning in the laws that I keep
New testament
Breaking every chain in me deep
I am the line
Where the curse and promise meet
Two testaments
One fire
Screaming through my teeth (woah)