

Prompt / Lyrics
[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 --- [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 --- [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 --- [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 --- [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 --- [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 --- [Outro – soft, piano only] Let the world wind down and break... I’ll love him to the end
Tags
4 minutes dark ballad with a slow, pulsing beat and rising orchestration, female
3:54
No
5/28/2025