Beast of the Harlot

[Intro]
Shadows bite the edge of dawn
Ashes on her wedding veil
Silver chalice
Crimson stain
She smiles through the funeral hail
[Verse 1]
She walks in ruined corridors
Veins of gold on broken stone
Every promise that she swallowed
Turns to teeth and gleaming bone
Velvet scripture on her shoulders
Laced with hunger
Stitched with lies
Every saint that dared to bless her
Burns behind her painted eyes
[Chorus]
Beast of the harlot
Crowned in the wreckage of kings
Drinking the thunder
Feeding on oaths and on rings
Cold is her mercy
Sweet is the venom she sings
Beast of the harlot
Dancing on puppet-stringed kings (woah)
[Verse 2]
She carves empires into candles
Lets them drip and fade away
Whispers treaties in the dark
Then lights a match at break of day
Scarlet banners in her chamber
Made from flags of fallen men
Every “never” that they offered
She turned “never” into “again”
[Chorus]
Beast of the harlot
Crowned in the wreckage of kings
Drinking the thunder
Feeding on oaths and on rings
Cold is her mercy
Sweet is the venom she sings
Beast of the harlot
Dancing on puppet-stringed kings
[Bridge]
[Halftime
Clean guitar arpeggios]
I was the last fool kneeling
For a blessing from her hand
Thought I could tame that hunger
With a broken wedding band
She kissed my brow so softly
Breath like smoke and dying flame
“You are not my love
” she whispered
“You are just another name”
[Chorus]
Beast of the harlot
Crowned in the wreckage of kings
Drinking the thunder
Feeding on oaths and on rings
Cold is her mercy
Sweet is the venom she brings
Beast of the harlot
I wear your bite like a ring (hey!)

metal, Epic power/speed metal ballad, double-kick under soaring guitars that swing from clean arpeggios to galloping riffs; male vocals starting in a haunted low register then climbing into piercing high notes on the chorus; melodic twin-guitar leads and a dramatic halftime bridge that blooms into a blazing shred solo, choir-style backing on the final hook, power metal, ballad, speed metal