[Verse 1]
Ash on the altar rail
Hands in the fevered dark
I hear the broken names
Dragged through the iron sparks
The night has teeth and nails
It claws at every door
I walk the chapel line
Where saints have bled before
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise up the silver blade
Split through the fever veil
Call out the holy name
Let the black bones wail
[Chorus]
Arc Angel Raphael
(Sword of the heaven's)
Sever thy grief
Bring thou relief
Arc Angel Raphael
(Sword of the heaven's)
Sick of the suffering
Set the wounded free
[Verse 2]
I found you bent in rain
Cold in the parish stone
A crown of fevered thorns
Around a cracked white bone
I cut the curse in two
I burned the rot away
Every devoured hour
I drag back into day
[Pre-Chorus]
Raise up the silver blade
Split through the fever veil
Call out the holy name
Let the black bones wail
[Chorus]
Arc Angel Raphael
(Sword of the heaven's)
Sever thy grief
Bring thou relief
Arc Angel Raphael
(Sword of the heaven's)
Sick of the suffering
Set the wounded free
[Bridge]
Now hear the cathedral shake
Now hear the mourners rise
The plague-kings lose their grip
Before your firelit eyes
I am the scarred-out prayer
I am the last hard bell
I go where shadows crawl
And break the gates of hell
[Final Chorus]
Arc Angel Raphael
(Sword of the heaven's)
Sever thy grief
Bring thou relief
Arc Angel Raphael
(Sword of the heaven's)
Sick of the suffering
Set the wounded free
Arc Angel Raphael
(Sword of the heaven's)
Raise the fallen again
And let the broken breathe