[Verse 1]
Buried in the first eclipse
I remember every grave I kissed
Ash in my lungs
A thousand tongues
Praising my hunger
Calling me mother
Castles carved in marrow and frost
Names of my children burned in the moss
I was the plague that never sleeps
The crimson tide
The shepherd of teeth
[Chorus]
I am the original vampire
If I fall
The bloodline burns
Every throat I've ever opened
Turns to dust when my heart turns
But emerald eyes found me in the fire
Sunlight threaded through her hair
If I die
They all expire
Still I'd walk into the snare
[Verse 2]
She smelled like rain on broken stone
Soft small hands on ancient bones
Laughed at my fangs like crooked knives
Called me a ghost who learned to cry
Emerald blaze in the chapel glass
Blonde like dawn that never passed
She kissed the rot under my skin
Said
"You are more than what you're in"
[Pre-Chorus]
My children kneel in their velvet masks
Hissing oaths
Asking one last task
"Choose the swarm or choose the spark"
Their voices buzzing in the dark
[Chorus]
I am the original vampire
If I fall
The bloodline burns
Every throat I've ever opened
Turns to dust when my heart turns
But emerald eyes found me in the fire
Sunlight threaded through her hair
If I die
They all expire
Still I'd walk into the snare
[Bridge]
[Half-time breakdown
Low growl that climbs to scream]
Thrones of skulls
Or her small room
A billion lives
Or her perfume
They bare their teeth
My feral choir
"We are your curse
You are our sire"
I taste her name
Like sacred sin
If I kill myself
Do I set them free
Or her within?
[Chorus]
I am the original vampire
If I fall
The bloodline burns
Every throat I've ever opened
Turns to dust when my heart turns
Her emerald eyes become my pyre
Golden halo
Final glare
If I die
They all expire
Still I choose that mortal prayer
[Outro]
Let the old night crack and shatter (hey!)
Let their screaming veins run dry
One last kiss in mortal matter
For that green and golden sky