Magnolia Confession

Lyrics

Verse 1
Julien in white gloves
By the chapel door
Moon on my collar
Blood on the floor

Della, you walk in
Like a blade of silk
I’ve lived with the curse
Till my mouth learned milk

Beauty always breaks
That’s what time has taught
But you look untouched
By the war I bought

Pre-Chorus
So I called your past
To the front of the room
Set the old sins down
Like roses in bloom

Let them say my name
Let them taste my shame
If you don’t flinch now
I can’t blame the flame

Chorus
Kneel, my past, kneel
(Kneel, my past, kneel)
Tell her what I did
Tell her what you steal

Kneel, my past, kneel
(Kneel, my past, kneel)
If she stays that still
Then I’m in her spell

Verse 2
She watched me bleed slow
Like it was art
No scream in her throat
Just a hand on her heart

And I saw my ruin
In the calm of her face
A saint in the smoke
With a bruise of grace

I thought I was poison
But she drank the night
Now my graveyard mouth
Wants to call her mine

Pre-Chorus
So I laid my sins
At her velvet feet
Told the dead to speak
Told the dead to eat

If she sees the truth
And still looks at me
Then the worst of me
Is what she set free

Chorus
Kneel, my past, kneel
(Kneel, my past, kneel)
Tell her what I did
Tell her what you steal

Kneel, my past, kneel
(Kneel, my past, kneel)
If she stays that still
Then I’m in her spell

Bridge
Della, don’t look away
Let the truth stay bare
I made a cathedral
Out of my despair

And if I’m condemned
By the dark I kept
I’ll wear that verdict
Like a vow I’ve slept

Final Chorus
Kneel, my past, kneel
(Kneel, my past, kneel)
Tell her what I did
Tell her what you steal

Kneel, my past, kneel
(Kneel, my past, kneel)
She saw all my sin
And still reached for me