VESSEL WITH TEETH

**Verse I**

You taught me how to bleed in time

With the rhythm of your need

Every touch was sanctified

Every absence felt like sin

I held my breath between your words

Like mercy lived there if I waited

But silence only learns to hurt

When it knows it’s being worshipped

**Pre-Chorus**

I bent until I disappeared

Just to fit inside your hands

You called it love, I called it fear

Dressed up as a higher plan

**Chorus**

I was a vessel, not a voice

I was the echo of your name

I loved you like a god would want

You loved me like a chain

So let me crack, let me come undone

If rage is all I’ve got to prove I’m alive

I won’t kneel for you again

I won’t make peace with the knife

**Verse II**

You drank the calm out of my chest

Left the storm to teach me how

To scream without a sound

To rot politely, to bow

I kept the faith when you kept score

Every flaw was currency

I paid in skin, you asked for more

And called it vulnerability

**Pre-Chorus II**

I learned too late that heaven’s gate

Was just another locked room

You stood inside with the only key

And called my suffocation truth

**Chorus**

I was a vessel, not a voice

I was devotion set to bleed

I loved you like a god would want

You loved what you could take from me

So let me break, let me be done

If anger is the only thing that’s mine

I won’t kneel for you again

I won’t make peace with the knife

**Bridge (Low → Explosive)**

I still feel you in the dark

Like a curse I can’t outrun

I still reach for what you were

Then remember what you’ve done

You don’t get to haunt me

You don’t get to stay

If you wanted my forever

You shouldn’t have fed on my pain

*(beat drops)*

I was never weak

I was just alone

**Final Chorus**

I was a vessel, now I’m teeth

Now I bite back when it hurts

I loved you past the point of sense

You loved me past the point of worth

So let me rise, let me ruin

Every altar built from shame

I won’t kneel for you again

I won’t wear your fucking name

**Outro**

This isn’t forgiveness

This is release

I’m done being holy

For something that eats

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