Rust and Reverance

[Verse 1]
He walks like a ghost through the soot and the gears
Eyes made of ruin, lips stained with years
His breath is a whisper of copper and flame
And still I call him, still I stay

[Verse 2]
He sleeps where the sun cannot touch what he’s been
A thousand regrets stitched under his skin
But in the hush of the steam and the dark
He holds me like I’m still a spark


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[Chorus]
Loving him is rust and reverence
Clockwork blood and consequence
He drinks the night and dreams of light
While I give him what time forgets
It’s knives and lace, a curse, a grace
A kiss that tastes of violence
But I would bleed a hundred ways
To love him in this silence


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[Verse 3]
His smile is a war between mercy and need
A mouth made for ruin, but soft when it feeds
I bear his marks like medals, not chains
Each one a hymn written into my veins


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[Chorus]
Loving him is rust and reverence
A storm beneath an elegance
He hides his teeth, but not his grief
And I cradle all his penance
It’s ash and oil, it’s blood and coil
It’s knowing how it ends
But I would walk through fire and fog
To love him once again


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[Bridge – whispered/sung]
They warned me not to hold a blade
That hungers when it loves
But darling, what’s a heart
If it don’t bruise when it trusts?
Let them fear what we become
Let them call it sin
I’ll take the shadows, take the fangs
Just to let him in


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[Final Chorus – soaring, orchestral]
Loving him is rust and reverence
A vow carved out of consequence
He’s midnight dressed in mourning bells
And I’m the song he can’t forget
It’s moonlight drowned in furnace smoke
And breath I’d give again
So let the world wind down and break
I’ll love him to the end


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[Outro – soft, piano only]
Let the world wind down and break...
I’ll love him to the end

4 minutes dark ballad with a slow, pulsing beat and rising orchestration, female