[Verse 1]
Golden handshake
Blood on the sleeve
Handshake tighter
Harder to breathe
Signed in boardrooms
Far from the sirens
Feeding the furnace
With families and islands
[Pre-Chorus]
You count the coffins
We count the cost
You call it progress
We call it loss
[Chorus]
Teeth in the cathedral
Biting through the steeple glass
Thrones made out of loopholes
Built on broken backs
You wear the law like armor
Draped in stolen flags
Teeth in the cathedral
And we’re the body bag
[Verse 2]
Paper prisons
Fine-print chains
Every promise
Carved in our veins
Smiles on screens
Hiding the rot
“Thoughts and prayers”
Till the cameras stop
[Pre-Chorus]
You sell us future
We pay in youth
You bury records
We dig for truth
[Chorus]
Teeth in the cathedral
Biting through the steeple glass
Thrones made out of loopholes
Built on broken backs
You wear the law like armor
Draped in stolen flags
Teeth in the cathedral
And we’re the body bag
[Bridge]
Raise your voice
Like a siren (hey!)
Call their saints
What they are—tyrants
Ink runs red
From their pens
This is where
Their halo ends
[Chorus]
Teeth in the cathedral
Biting through the steeple glass
Thrones made out of loopholes
Built on broken backs
You wear the law like armor
Draped in stolen flags
Teeth in the cathedral
Teeth in the cathedral
And we’re not crawling back