[Intro]
Ash on the altar
Smoke in my lungs
Pages are burning
I bite through my tongue
[Verse 1]
I was fed that plastic heaven
Silver cross and crooked grin
Every sermon felt like shackles
Every prayer just soaked in sin
Pulled the cord on hollow idols
Ripped their halo from the wire
All their promised golden silence
Couldn’t drown this rising fire
[Chorus]
Shatter the veil
Let the blindfold fall
Truth in the wound
Written on the wall
I’d rather choke
On the taste of the real
Than die in a dream
I was trained not to feel
[Verse 2]
Saw the cracks run through the steeple
Heard the secrets in the choir
Every “amen” sounded empty
Every hymn fueled my desire
Now the lies drip down like poison
From their sanctified machines
I will carve my own commandments
In the rust and gasoline (yeah)
[Chorus]
Shatter the veil
Let the blindfold fall
Truth in the wound
Written on the wall
I’d rather choke
On the taste of the real
Than die in a dream
I was trained not to feel
[Bridge]
This is revelation
No clouds
No crown
Just the cold foundation
Where the temple fell down
I found my salvation
In the fallout glow
If the sky won’t open
I will make it explode (hey!)
[Instrumental – Guitar Solo]
[Groove drops to a half-time stomp
Solo climbs from tense melodic phrases into wild slides
Squeals
And frantic runs over a grinding riff
Then locks back to the main theme]
[Chorus]
Shatter the veil
Let the blindfold fall
Truth in the wound
Written on the wall
I’d rather choke
On the taste of the real
Than die in a dream
I was trained not to feel
[Outro]
Ash on the altar
Smoke in my lungs
I walk from the ruins
With a sharpened tongue