[Intro – Candle crackles, low Gregorian chant under reversed whispering]
“Speak your sins… and let them in.”
(The altar doesn’t want your prayers—it wants you.)
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[Verse 1 – Hollow vocals, cinematic tension]
I carved my name into the bone
Of every lie I called my own
Now my skin won’t fit the same
It peels when someone says my name
The floorboards creak like ancient hymns
And I still taste the blood of them
They said the devil’s on a leash—
But I’m the one who cut the teeth
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[Pre-Chorus – Soft female vocals echo over ominous synths]
You lit the candles, drew the sign…
But you forgot which soul was mine…
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[Chorus – Explodes with layered screams and clean vocals]
This is the altar of me—
Where I burned my past to set it free
But the ash rose up and came alive
Now I’m choking on the things I survived
This isn’t faith, it’s a funeral flame
This body’s cursed, this blood’s to blame
They said to kneel—but I became the beast
At the altar of me, I found no peace
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[Verse 2 – Rap-scream flow, glitchy distortions layered]
Baptized in kerosene,
I licked the fire just to feel clean
I wear a mask with no face underneath
They call it healing, I call it grief
Tongues are speaking in riddles I dream
Sanity’s stitched at the edge of a scream
Every prayer I prayed was reversed—
Now I bless the pain and call it a verse
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[Pre-Chorus – Whispered counter-vocal builds into a snarl]
You wanted light? Then kill the night.
But I was born from wrong and rite…
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[Chorus – Even harder, darker, backed with orchestral swells]
This is the altar of me—
Where I split my soul to be set free
But the pieces clawed their way back home
Now I wear them like a broken throne
This isn’t truth—it’s a haunted creed
This heart still beats just to feed the need
They said to kneel—but I broke my knees
At the altar of me, I serve disease
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[Breakdown – Tempo shifts to crawling doom, vocals guttural]
(ALTAR BLEEDING, ALTAR BURNS!)
LAY ME DOWN AMONG THE WORMS!
I AM NOT WHAT I ONCE BELIEVED—
I AM THE ROTTEN GOD I PREACHED!!
(SACRIFICE ME TO THE SELF I FEAR!)
I BUILT THIS SHRINE OF PAIN RIGHT HERE!!
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[Bridge – Soft female singing in Latin over heartbeat & strings]
“In tenebris sumus…
Fiat voluntas tua…”
(In the darkness we remain… let your will be done…)
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[Final Chorus – Slower, war-torn, anguished clean/scream duet]
This is the altar of me—
Where I bled out truth and drank deceit
No resurrection, no white light
Just shadows clawing through my sight
I didn’t fall—I chose the flame
Now say my name in fear, not shame
I am the beast, the priest, the plea
This is not a song—it’s blasphemy
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[Outro – Distant bell, final whisper:]
You prayed for mercy… to a god that was me.