

Perfume still on the
glass
your
relic in my
chest I confess, I built a statue out of cold and calm
and breath {crystalline synth pads building}
I kept your aftertaste underneath a veil of clean
put your name on the hit list then locked you in my
dreams My flesh knew your gravity before my rules could speak
one whisper through the velvet and the stone went weak
{glitch cuts on vocals} So I wrote it on the altar called
it debt, called it owed I could stand on mountaintops and still
feel you in my bones The fantasies went deeper than the lie
I could confess I could turn myself to marble but the marble
wanted rest
{soaring trance lift} You are not my religion
but I kneel where memory starts hands above my head
with a furious heart
{peak energy
drop} Crucify the wanting then forgive it in the dark we dance
in private theater velvet nights and hollow sparks No throne,
no crown, no ceremony still you carve me into gold still you
move me like a hymn
with the pull I can’t control
{glitch breakdown} I kept the king in silence
left the crown behind the veil
made a saint of my composure
so nobody saw it fail
Then your kiss returned like incense
not gentle, not erased a flash of pleasure burning with the ache
beneath the lace {trap percussion focus} So I stopped calling it control
when the rite began to breathe stopped naming it a limit when
it brought me to my knees Now the dark keeps returning like
a prayer I never chose I can hold myself together and still
feel you rising close
{build to final}
You are
not my religion
but I know the sacred rite where a touch becomes a relic
and a kiss becomes the light Crucify the wanting
then forgive it when it stays I was strong again then you
made the fever blaze {full peak}
If this is the altar why does it burn?
If this is the icon what did I earn?
If I am the statue why do I breathe?
If I am the relic why can’t I leave?
No saint comes clean no velvet stays pure no kiss this deep
leaves the body sure I feel the transformation old flesh breaking through
I was holding all the embers now the embers answer you
{glitch interlude build} We dance in private theater velvet nights and hollow
sparks no throne, no crown,
no ceremony only gold inside the dark Still you carve me into
marble still you move me like a hymn still the body keeps
the memory still I kneel where it begins {extended drop} Perfume still
on the glass your relic in my chest I confess,
I built a statue out of cold and calm and breath You
were never mine to hold but you never fully left just the
dark coming back with devotion on its breath
{fade with
pads}