Teeth Of Heaven

*(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