[Intro]
Blood on my hands
Rust on my name
Helmets in heaps
I remember each face
[Verse 1]
Tongue tastes iron
I drag this chain of kills
Dog tags clatter
Like teeth in a winter chill
Red in my vision
Chaplain calls it “will”
But I know hunger
That faith can’t fill
I was a son of angels
Now I’m gnawing on the cage
Praying in a thunderstorm
Not to feel that wave
[Chorus]
Red thirst, black rage
It’s a two-edged blade in my veins (hey)
First drip, then flood
Till I can’t tell friend from prey
Red thirst, black rage
Every oath I made starts to fade
If I give in once
Will there be anything of me to save?
[Verse 2]
[Beat drops, distorted step]
I march through mud, through marrow
Through brothers I can’t name
Skull mask grinning from the chapel
Says the sin’s the same
Hear that whisper in the bolter smoke
“Just a little more”
See that banner with our father’s face
Dripping in the gore
Armor painted in another’s pulse
Badge of “honor,” brand of guilt
Carve a tally in the ceramite
For every mind I’ve split
[Chorus]
Red thirst, black rage
It’s a two-edged blade in my veins
First drip, then flood
Till I can’t tell friend from prey
Red thirst, black rage
Every oath I made starts to fade
If I give in once
Will there be anything of me to save?
[Bridge]
[Industrial swell, blastbeats crash]
Hear them sing my name in battle
Like a martyr, like a beast (woah)
Chain-sword choir, screaming metal
Drowns the part of me that’s weak
I see halos made of barbed wire
Over every broken helm
I see angels tearing angels
In this cursed, bleeding realm
If I tear my heart out, brother
Will the hunger tear it too?
If I’m lost inside the storm
Tell me, would you pull me through?
[Chorus]
Red thirst, black rage
I’m a failing saint on a grave
Teeth grit, fists shake
But the craving claws through the faith
Red thirst, black rage
If I cross that line, I stay
So I fight this war
Inside my skull, every day
[Outro]
Static in the vox
Names in the dust
I press my helm to the altar
Whisper, “Break me
Before the blood does”