[Intro]
[choir and distant bells]
Seven stars go out
Ash on midnight air
Cracks across the sky
Something crawls through there (hey)
[Verse 1]
First soul
Famine in the mirror
Eyes like empty vaults
Pulling color from our veins
Second soul
War in every gesture
Casual, crooked smile
As the cities twist in chains
Third soul
Plague in quiet footsteps
Breath like broken glass
Over gardens turned to rust
Fourth soul
Silence in the thunder
Words refuse to form
Every promise turning dust
[Chorus]
Seven souls of annihilation
Tearing at the seams of a world apart
Hands reach through the rupture in creation
Nail by nail, they unmake the heart
We were never meant to see their faces
Yet we stare into their burning art
Seven souls of annihilation
Carving out the core of what we are
[Verse 2]
Fifth soul
Madness in the water
Laughing in the flood
As the names wash off our bones
Sixth soul
Grief that grows like ivy
Wrapping every house
Till we’re strangers in our homes (oh)
Seventh soul
Standing where the sky splits
Wearing all our fears
Like a crown of shattered glass
One step
And every law collapses
Time forgets its path
All that was begins to pass
[Chorus]
Seven souls of annihilation
Tearing at the seams of a world apart
Hands reach through the rupture in creation
Nail by nail, they unmake the heart
We were never meant to see their faces
Yet we stare into their burning art
Seven souls of annihilation
Carving out the core of what we are
[Bridge]
[female growls + male clean]
(Bring them back)
Too late for that prayer
(Seal the crack)
It widens with every despair
(Count to six)
But the seventh still stands
(Feel it mix)
Our dust in their hands
[half-time]
They speak in collapsing constellations
Names that scrape the skull from inside
Every thought an open invitation
Every scream a failing tide (woah)
[Chorus]
Seven souls of annihilation
Tearing at the seams of a world apart
Hands reach through the rupture in creation
Nail by nail, they unmake the heart
We were never meant to leave this cradle
Now we drift beyond the blackest star
Seven souls of annihilation
And we follow as they open us apart