For We Are Many

[Intro]
[low choir
Tolling bells]
In the ash of broken altars
In the cracks beneath the stones
Hear the crawling
Hear the calling
From a thousand hollow throats
[Verse 1]
Crown of cinders on the sinner
Iron halo
Dripping red
Priests are choking on their scriptures
As the walls drip words they never said
Carved in candle smoke and sulfur
“Open wide
Invite the flame”
Every whisper
Every whimper
Feeds the hunger of a buried name
[Pre-Chorus]
Do you feel us
In your marrow
Like a dagger made of dust?
Every terror
You have swallowed
Is a throne for us
[Chorus]
For we are many
One mouth
Million tongues
We rise in your ruin
We breathe in your lungs
For we are many
One wound
Endless pain
Kneel to the legion
That wears your face and name
[Verse 2]
Stained-glass saints with shattered halos
Bleed their colors down the nave
Marble eyes begin to tremble
As the statues try to look away
On your tongue
The foreign laughter
On your hands
The crawling cold
Every promise that you murdered
Comes back crowned and robed in gold
[Pre-Chorus]
Do you hear us
In the silence
Scratching under every prayer?
Every broken
Vow you buried
Builds a kingdom there
[Chorus]
For we are many
One roar
Countless throats
We dance in your heartbeat
We write in your bones
For we are many
One pyre
Endless flame
Drink from the darkness
And choke upon our name
[Bridge]
[strings and harp surge
Tempo pulls back]
You begged for a guardian
Begged for a guide
Opened your chest like a temple wide
We slipped in soft as a secret thought
Now you are the cage that you once sought
(never alone)
(never again)
Your soul is a city of crimson doors
Each one opens
To more
[Chorus]
For we are many
One storm
Endless night
We tear through the daylight
We crown you our blight
For we are many
One void
Countless eyes
Speak the forbidden
And watch your heaven die
[Outro]
[guitars race
Choir swells]
For we are many
Carved in your skin
You prayed for a savior
We answered as sin
For we are many
Host and host combined
The legion you invited
To march inside your mind

metal, Epic power/speed metal with gothic orchestra; rapid double-kick drums, tremolo-picked guitars locked with soaring harps and ominous violins. Male vocals: verses in a sharp, snarling mid-range; choruses open into huge, chant-like highs with stacked gang shouts. Choir pads and tubular bells in the bridge, then a blazing shred break under a final, triumphant-but-terrifying chorus., speed metal, power metal