[Intro]
Ash in my lungs
Black on my tongue
Prayers in a jar
Teeth in the tar
[Verse 1]
They said “stay calm”
I carved in the wall instead
Tiny red psalms
Each line something they won’t forget
Candles in a circle
Names in the salt, head bowed
If mercy is a myth
Then I’ll speak to the dark out loud (yeah)
[Chorus]
Madness is the cure
That’s what they bred me for
Let it all burn, burn pure
Watch it fall through the floor
Madness is the cure
All I know, all I’m sure
If the world won’t turn
Then we burn it to heal what it tore
[Verse 2]
Crowds in their glass
Smiling with hollow eyes
Feeding on scraps
Calling their hunger “life”
I tasted their poison
It sat like a stone in my chest
So I lit up the sky
Said “here, choke on your own unrest” (ugh)
[Chorus]
Madness is the cure
That’s what they bred me for
Let it all burn, burn pure
Watch it fall through the floor
Madness is the cure
All I know, all I’m sure
If the world won’t turn
Then we burn it to heal what it tore
[Bridge]
I don’t want thrones
Just silence in my head
I don’t want crowns
Just truth for the unfed
If fire is the language
The wicked understand
I’ll write their last sermon
In smoke across the land (yeah, yeah)
[Chorus]
Madness is the cure
That’s what they bred me for
Let it all burn, burn pure
Watch it fall through the floor
Madness is the cure
All I know, all I’m sure
If the world won’t turn
Then we burn it to heal what it tore