Consecrate the wound

### **Verse 1 — *Low, restrained clean***

I learned your name in the silence

Where the ceiling breathes with me

Every prayer tastes like rust now

Every promise incomplete

I kept your ghost in my bloodstream

Let it tell me what to be

I knelt where the light was dying

And called that faith, called that peace

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### **Pre-Chorus — *Lift, breathy falsetto creeps in***

*(Falsetto)*

If love is a ritual

I bled out the proof

*(Drop to chest)*

If you were a god

I was made to lose

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### **Chorus — *Falsetto lead, wide and aching***

*(Falsetto)*

So **consecrate the wound**

I gave you everything that moves

I swallowed my truth

Just to feel close to you

*(Layer chest voice underneath last line)*

I would hollow my chest

Just to make you stay

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### **Post-Chorus — *Instrumental swell, no drums***

*(Falsetto ad-libs, distant)*

“Stay… stay… don’t go…”

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### **Verse 2 — *Clean, darker, more present***

I traced your shape in the static

In the space where my hope should sleep

Every touch was a language

I was never meant to speak

I learned how to disappear

In the warmth of your doubt

You said I was holy

But you never knelt down

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### **Pre-Chorus 2 — *Falsetto higher, strained***

*(Falsetto)*

If this is salvation

Why does it burn?

*(Crack in voice)*

If this is love

Why does it hurt to learn?

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### **Chorus 2 — *Full band, falsetto stacked***

*(Falsetto lead)*

So **consecrate the wound**

I gave you everything that moves

I swallowed my truth

Just to feel close to you

*(Sudden cutoff)*

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## **BREAKDOWN — *Drop tuned, slow, violent***

**(Drums half-time. Guitars chug. Bass distorted.)**

*(Spoken → scream progression)*

I

was

the altar

You

were

the knife

*(Scream)*

I CALLED IT DESTINY

YOU CALLED IT TIME

*(Chugs hit)*

I STAYED FAITHFUL

YOU STAYED FREE

*(Long scream over open chord)*

I DROWNED IN THE SPACE

BETWEEN YOU AND ME

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### **Break — *Silence → piano + falsetto***

*(Falsetto, fragile)*

Say you never meant it

Say I misread the signs

Don’t call it mercy

When you leave me behind

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### **Final Chorus — *Falsetto → full chest → scream harmony***

*(Falsetto)*

So **consecrate the wound**

Let it sing like I used to do

*(Chest voice enters)*

I gave you my breath

I gave you my youth

*(Scream harmony underneath last line)*

If love is a god

Then I was untrue

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### **Outro — *Falsetto alone, distant reverb***

*(Falsetto)*

Because I worshipped you

Still do

In the dark

In the quiet

In the ruin of you