Sacrificial Lamb

Lyrics

Intro
Count the teeth
Count the bones
Lock the door
Feed the stone
Hush now
The floor can hear you

Verse 1
Your name is carved in dust
On the inside of the wall
Cold hands in a paper crown
You hear them when they call
The room bends wrong tonight
The air is full of rust
Every mirror learns your shape
Then it turns to ash and trust

Pre-Chorus
Breathe in the iron taste
Breathe in the borrowed fear
They found you by your shadow
Now the end is near

Chorus
Sacrificial lamb
Lift your head
Sacrificial lamb
Feed the red
Sacrificial lamb
Say it clear
Sacrificial lamb
We are here

Verse 2
Wires in your throat now
Spelling out your prayer
Pale hands on the metal gate
No one living there
Footsteps in the crawlspace
Clicking with your pulse
Something wears your face tonight
And smiles when it convulses

Pre-Chorus
Breathe in the iron taste
Breathe in the borrowed fear
They found you by your shadow
Now the end is near

Chorus
Sacrificial lamb
Lift your head
Sacrificial lamb
Feed the red
Sacrificial lamb
Say it clear
Sacrificial lamb
We are here

Breakdown
Kneel
Kneel
Kneel
Metal in the mouth
Black salt in the wound
Turn the key
Break the seal
Break
Break
Break

Verse 3
There’s a choir in the vents
With a voice like broken glass
They sing your skin off gently
Then they drag you through the past
You were never lost
You were led
Every bruise a little map
Every scream a little thread

Bridge
If I wear the skin they gave me
If I learn the shape of pain
Will the hands that made me hollow
Call me back by name

Chorus
Sacrificial lamb
Lift your head
Sacrificial lamb
Feed the red
Sacrificial lamb
Say it clear
Sacrificial lamb
We are here

Breakdown
Hush
Hush
The machine is praying
Hush
Hush
The walls are swaying
Crush
Crush
Let it take the shape
Crush
Crush
No escape

Outro
Count the teeth
Count the bones
Lock the door
Feed the stone
Sacrificial lamb
Sacrificial lamb
Go down slow
Go down slow