[Verse 1]
Ash in the chalice
Wax on the page
I carve your forgotten
Name in the plague
Candles breathe sideways
Thick with regret
Ravens keep counting
Debts I forget
[Chorus]
On the throne of frozen choirs
I wear this crown of quiet fires
Every hymn a curse you swore
(bleeding through the stone)
Let the shattered halos fall
Blackened glass in every hall
I am hymned and I am whored
By the kingdom you ignored
[Verse 2]
Veins like the catacombs
Hollow and wide
Choirboys of carrion
Sing from my side
Stained velvet scripture
Pinned to my skin
I open like incense
Smoke drawing you in
[Chorus]
On the throne of frozen choirs
I wear this crown of quiet fires
Every hymn a curse you swore
(bleeding through the stone)
Let the shattered halos fall
Blackened glass in every hall
I am hymned and I am whored
By the kingdom you ignored
[Bridge]
[Organ and choir rise
Tempo half-time]
Censer swings
Ashes snow
Tongues of wolves
Praise below
Take this night
Crack the husk
Crown me king
Of ruined dusk
[Chorus]
On the throne of frozen choirs
I wear this crown of quiet fires
Every hymn a curse you swore
(bleeding through the stone)
Let the shattered halos fall
Blackened glass in every hall
I am hymned and I am whored
By the kingdom you ignored