Lead Me Toward the Shadows

[Verse 1]
Cold chapel
Candles caving in
Ash on my tongue
From every little sin
Your vows were vultures
Picking through my trust
White dress
Black altar
Woke up in the dust
[Chorus]
Lead me toward the shadows
Where all your saints decay
Kneel me in the gallows
Let every halo fray
If there is any mercy
It’s hiding in your eyes
So lead me toward the shadows
And teach me how to die
[Verse 2]
Teeth in the roses
Rust in the ring
You carved a promise
That never meant a thing
I drink your silence
Like poison from a glass
Your comfort cuts
I bleed and call it “us”
[Chorus]
Lead me toward the shadows
Where all your saints decay
Kneel me in the gallows
Let every halo fray
If there is any mercy
It’s hiding in your eyes
So lead me toward the shadows
And teach me how to die
[Bridge]
[Breakdown hits
Drums lurch into half-time
Low gutturals]
Drag me down the aisle of bones (hey!)
Crown me queen of ruined thrones
If love is just a funeral choir
I’ll sing in pitch with every liar
[Chorus]
Lead me toward the shadows
Where all your saints decay
Kneel me in the gallows
Let every halo fray
If there is any mercy
It’s hiding in your eyes
So lead me toward the shadows
And teach me how to die (how to die)

metal, Female vocals in a hybrid deathcore/goth metal setting: downtuned chugs, blast-beat bursts, and dissonant tremolo under harsh screams; chorus blooms into melodic twin-guitar lines and soaring cleans over half-time groove. Dark choirs and church-organ swells color the breakdown; final refrain stacks harmonies and guttural lows for a cinematic, crushing close., melodic death metal, death metal