[Verse 1]
Candles choke on coal-black breath
Icons crack
Their paint runs red
Nails in the spine of a wooden saint
Tongues of smoke
Spell out your name
[Chorus]
Crown me in fire
O serpent father
Let churches rot in rust and mold
I drink the dark that drowns all water
Throne of ash and hunger cold
[Verse 2]
Children carve their crooked stars
In bark
In bone
Behind locked doors
Rusty bells cough dust at dawn
Priests awake
With teeth of thorns
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[whispered vocals]
Under the altar
Rats grow wings
Under the scripture
Worms learn speech
Under the skin
Your closer skin
Scratches
Laughs
Demands to feed
[Chorus]