[Verse 1]
In the corner of the ceiling
Candle smoke kissing your threads
You hang like a quiet question
Over all our restless heads
Ink on eight thin fingers
Tracing patterns in the dust
Every line a crooked scripture
Every knot a whispered trust
[Chorus]
Oh writing spider
Black-eyed choir
Spinning silver in the dark
Weave your web of wicked wisdom
Brand your warnings on our hearts
If tomorrow’s going to burn
Let your letters start to glow
Writing spider
Web-born oracle
Tell us what we’re dying to know
[Verse 2]
You map our little futures
Between the rafters and the beams
Stitching names into a spiral
Hooked on every haunted dream
I see symbols in your shadows
I see storms in every curve
You twitch and the air goes silent
Like the world just lost its nerve
[Chorus]
Oh writing spider
Black-eyed choir
Spinning silver in the dark
Weave your web of wicked wisdom
Brand your warnings on our hearts
If tomorrow’s going to burn
Let your letters start to glow
Writing spider
Web-born oracle
Tell us what we’re dying to know
[Bridge]
[Guitars swell
Drums drop to a ritual tom pattern]
Eight eyes open
Eight legs write
You tie our secrets
To the night
You pull on chances
Stretch our fate
You shake the lattice
Till it breaks (oh whoa)
[Chorus]
Oh writing spider
Black-eyed choir
Spinning silver in the dark
Weave your web of wicked wisdom
Brand your warnings on our hearts
If tomorrow’s going to burn
Let your letters start to glow
Writing spider
Web-born oracle
Tell us what we’re dying to know
[Outro]
You retreat into the ceiling
All your warnings softly hum
Threads still humming like a mantra
What is written will be done