Reverse Prayer

Lyrics

Intro
I kneel to the wrong god
Cold tongue, metal jaw
I speak in the dark
And it speaks back

Verse 1
I found your name in a rusted room
Scratched in the wall like a secret wound
Three clean knocks on a dead doorframe
Then my shadow answered me by name
Black thread tied round my throat tonight
Pull it slow, let it cut the light
Hands on the glass, I see my face
It blinks too late, it moves too fast

Pre-Chorus
Turn it inside
Turn it wrong
Bite the silence
Make it crawl
I hear the gears in the bone chamber
Count me down, count me lower

Chorus
Reverse prayer, break me down
Reverse prayer, drag me under now
Say my fear like a sacred sound
Reverse prayer, turn me around

Verse 2
There’s a smile sewn into the ceiling cracks
Every time I breathe, it breathes me back
I fed the floor with my last good lie
Now the tiles lean in when I walk by
Needle eyes in the cabinet door
Little white teeth on the kitchen floor
No peace here, just a humming cage
And a voice with my face in a paper rage

Pre-Chorus
Turn it inside
Turn it wrong
Bite the silence
Make it crawl
I hear the gears in the bone chamber
Count me down, count me lower

Chorus
Reverse prayer, break me down
Reverse prayer, drag me under now
Say my fear like a sacred sound
Reverse prayer, turn me around

Bridge
I am the lock
I am the key
I am the wound
That learned to speak
Kneel, kneel
No light in my mouth
Kneel, kneel
Pull the blackout out
Every word comes out backwards
Every saint wears teeth
Every step in this hallway
Leads straight through me

Breakdown
Cut
Cut
Cut the wire
Rust in the lungs, ash in the choir
Wrong hands, cold hands, hollow as stone
I do not pray
I do not know

Verse 3
Now the room wears skin like a stolen coat
And the walls all pulse when I lose my hold
I see my heartbeat in a cracked black screen
It’s a pale red glitch in a choking machine
If I scream, it learns the shape
If I run, it opens wide
So I crawl through the name I wore
And leave the rest outside

Pre-Chorus
Turn it inside
Turn it wrong
Bite the silence
Make it crawl
I hear the gears in the bone chamber
Count me down, count me lower

Chorus
Reverse prayer, break me down
Reverse prayer, drag me under now
Say my fear like a sacred sound
Reverse prayer, turn me around

Outro
I kneel to the wrong god
Cold tongue, metal jaw
Reverse prayer
Reverse prayer
And it speaks back