Threshold Anthem

I wrote your name where the candle bends

In the black between the means and ends

Every promise leaves a taste of ash

Every answer wants a little more than that

You wait beneath the floor

You breathe behind the door

I hear the silence asking me

What I came here for

Letter to Lucifer, what is your desire?

Do you want my grief,

or the shape of my fire?

Take the crown of thorns,

take the last good word

But leave me one truth that has not been heard

Letter to Lucifer, answer from the wire

What do you feed when the whole world is tired?

I saw your shadow wearing my face

Moving through the house at a measured pace

No angel came,

no warning bell

Just a cold hand pulling me toward the well

You wait beneath the floor

You breathe behind the door

I hear the silence asking me

What I came here for

If I kneel,

will the night go quiet?

If I speak,

will you start a riot?

I have carried this heart

like a loaded gun

Tell me what remains

when the mercy is gone

Letter to Lucifer,

what is your desire?

Do you want my grief,

or the shape of my fire?

Take the crown of thorns,

take the last good word

But leave me one truth that has not been heard

Letter to Lucifer,

answer from the wire

I am not your servant,

but I know your choir