Black Altar

Mmmm… Tayo… Hmmm

Intro (spoken, gravel-soft)

This ain’t a bedroom.

It’s a sanctuary with the lights cut.

Kneel where you stand.

Verse 1

Is it sinful to move this slow,

Like I’m reading your body in scripture codes?

That fabric on you feel ceremonial,

Vestments stitched for the unconfessional.

Hunger don’t scream, it hums in bass,

Low-end ache that time can’t erase.

Every look you give feel predestined,

Like God leaned in close and forgot to mention.

Pre-Chorus

Easy… let the shadows breathe,

Some truths only bloom underneath.

Names not written, they’re burned in breath,

Love this deep flirt with life and death.

Chorus

Meet me at the black altar, candlelight skin,

Where desire get baptized and reborn again.

No angels watching, no witnesses speak,

Just two broken saints learning how to believe.

Black altar…

Yeah, we praying with our pulse tonight.

Verse 2

Garments fall quiet like unanswered prayers,

Moonlight confessing what daylight spares.

Say something real from the pit of your chest,

Not pretty, not polished, just bleeding and blessed.

Damn… creation got scars like ours,

Still carved out beauty from fallen stars.

This ain’t lust, it’s a reckoning call,

Two spirits touching the same stone wall.

Pre-Chorus 2

Not there yet, but I taste the vow,

Future trembling in the here and now.

Hands speak fluent in sacred intent,

Every touch a psalm, every breath repentant.

Chorus

Meet me at the black altar, incense and smoke,

Where we drink from the same holy choke.

City dead quiet, heavens lean in close,

While we give God credit for what we chose.

Black altar…

Yeah, we praying with our pulse tonight.

Bridge (bare, ominous)

Say my name like confession, slow,

Like you afraid of letting it go.

Walls listening, floors memorizing,

This love got demons, but none of them hiding.

Shh… hear that thunder inside your ribs?

That ain’t fear, that’s covenant.

Break (half-sung, half-spoken)

We don’t worship bodies,

We worship what survives in them.

Bruised faith.

Still kneeling.

Outro

Take your time with me,

Eternity don’t rush the worthy.

Black altar…

Signed in shadow.

Sealed in spirit.

Hmmm… Tayo… Mmmm…

You Did It Again…

Thank you Tayo… Mmmm…