[Intro]
[low vocal register]
You trace the fault lines
Across my chest
Counting every quiet tremor
Like a test
[Verse 1]
[male vocal]
You say
"Hold still"
While you pull at every scar I hide
Turning over memories
Like weapons on a table by your side
[Verse 2]
[female vocal]
You say
"Let go"
But you cling to every version of my face
Every fever
Every fracture
Pinned like paper in your private holy place
[Chorus]
[male + female vocals]
If you take my name
Will you carry all the weight I’ve been dragging
Every vow
Every wound
Every rusted little chain
If you take my name
Can you bear the way my heart keeps collapsing
Or will you run when the sky starts to lean and break again
[Verse 3]
[male vocal]
You hold my breath
In the hollow of your collarbone
Tell me I’m a buried church
You’re desperate to call home
[female vocal]
You taste the past
On the back of every promised word I speak
Say you want the winter in me
Then flinch when you feel the teeth
[Pre-Chorus]
[female vocal
Almost whispered]
You keep asking for the truth
Like it’s gentle
Like it’s clean
But this love is heavy metal
Under porcelain skin that gleams
[Chorus]
[male + female vocals]
[Bridge]
[male vocal
Strained]
I will not kneel just to make you feel taller
Won’t bleed myself dry so your doubts grow smaller
If you want my soul
Say it with your throat on fire
[female vocal
Soaring]
I will not shrink just to fit in your heaven
Won’t twist these hands into shapes you’ve expected
If you want my heart
Say it like it’s all desire
[Instrumental break]
[guitar solo over shifting
Polyrhythmic drums
Choirs swelling under]
[Final Chorus]
[crescendo
Both vocals in octaves]
If you take my name
You are taking every storm I’ve been hiding
Every flare
Every fault
Every half-erased stain
If you take my name
We are bound inside the break
Intertwining
Say you’ll stay when the ground gives way
And the sky forgets our names
[Outro]
[female vocal
Soft]
Trace the fault lines
One last time
[male vocal
Soft]
If you take my name
You take all that’s mine