[Intro]
The wound has learned to wear a crown
A red tide cooling, slowing down
[Verse 1 — Voice A]
Under the iron of the morning
A dark seam seals across the skin
Every pulse becomes a warning
Something hard is forming in
[Verse 1 — Voice B]
Clotted rivers, locked and blackened
No return beneath the scar
What was living now is hardened
Buried where the failures are
[Pre-Chorus — Both]
Strike the shell and hear it ring
A frozen heart still wants to sing
[Chorus — Both]
Coagulated blood!
Turned to stone beneath the flood
Coagulated blood!
No cure for what we’ve become
Raise the blade, split the crust
Break the seal or rot in rust
Coagulated blood!
The body makes a god of us
[Verse 2 — Voice A]
I taste the copper in the silence
I see the vessels lose their fire
Every promise breeds compliance
Every clot climbs higher
[Verse 2 — Voice B]
Names are etched into the marrow
Old commands beneath the bone
Drag the chain and pull the arrow
Build a throne from what you own
[Bridge — Voice A]
Can you feel the pressure rising?
Can you hear the vessels close?
[Bridge — Voice B]
No salvation in disguising
What the flesh already knows!
[Breakdown — Both]
Seal it!
Harden!
Lock the heart behind the armor!
Seal it!
Harden!
Feed the wound and crown the martyr!
[Instrumental]
[Final Chorus — Both]
Coagulated blood!
Turned to stone beneath the flood
Coagulated blood!
No cure for what we’ve become
Raise the blade, split the crust
Break the seal or rot in rust
Coagulated blood!
The body makes a god of us
[Outro — Voice A and Voice B]
When the last red current dies
The hardened truth opens its eyes
Coagulated blood
Coagulated blood