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Candles lean
Their necks all broken
Wax like bones along the pews
Crimson script on crumbling plaster
Spelling out the things I choose to lose

Black lace tangled in the rafters
Dust falls soft like quiet blame
Every echo says your name again
Till the walls all answer with my shame

In the velvet chapel of my sins
I wear your teeth beneath my skin
Every vow a rusted pin
Holding all my monsters in
Kiss me in this holy ruin
Let the dark come flooding in

Thorn-ring bruises on my fingers
From the blessings that I stole
Silver chalice
Bitter water
Tastes like someone else’s soul

Eyes like shuttered stained-glass windows
Flicker red
Then fade to stone
We are saints in torn black velvet
Trading halos for a slow
Low moan (oh)

In the velvet chapel of my sins
I wear your teeth beneath my skin
Every vow a rusted pin
Holding all my monsters in
Kiss me in this holy ruin
Let the dark come flooding in

Lay my heart upon the altar
Let it crawl instead of bleed
If salvation looks like daylight
I will starve on what I need (yeah)

In the velvet chapel of my sins
I wear your teeth beneath my skin
Every vow a rusted pin
Holding all my monsters in
Kiss me in this holy ruin
Let the dark come flooding in