*(Verse 1)*
I still know the shape of your footsteps
How they haunted every room
You left your shadow in my bloodstream
Now I wear it like perfume
I fed your name to all my prayers
Watched them choke and hit the floor
You took the warmth out of my ribcage
Then asked me what I’m shaking for
*(Pre-Chorus)*
You wanted worship
I gave you veins
You wanted silence
I swallowed pain
*(Chorus)*
So bite me with the teeth of heaven
Drag me through your holy fire
You called it love, I call it violence
You dressed my grief in your desire
And I still reach for you in ruin
Though I know exactly what you are
A beautiful disease in motion
A black hole wearing a star
*(Verse 2)*
I heard your voice in every thunder
Felt your hands in every bruise
You made a temple of my body
Then taught the wolves the way to chew
Now I wake with storms behind me
Salt and static in my lungs
I’ve got your ghost beneath my fingernails
And poison sleeping on my tongue
*(Pre-Chorus)*
You wanted worship
I gave you veins
You wanted mercy
I learned your chains
*(Chorus)*
So bite me with the teeth of heaven
Drag me through your holy fire
You called it love, I call it violence
You dressed my grief in your desire
And I still reach for you in ruin
Though I know exactly what you are
A beautiful disease in motion
A black hole wearing a star
*(Bridge – soft piano to explosion)*
Was I just another altar?
Another throat beneath your knife?
Did you ever feel a heartbeat
Or only hunger dressed as light?
*(Breakdown)*
I BLED FOR YOU
I BROKE FOR YOU
NOW WATCH ME RISE
LIKE SMOKE THROUGH YOU
*(Final Chorus)*
So bite me with the teeth of heaven
I am not your sacrifice
You called it love, I call it war now
And I survived the parasite
Still I ache for what you ruined
Still I curse the shape you carved
A beautiful disease in motion
A dead sun wearing a heart
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