Beneath Fetid Crowns

(Come closer)

(Step off the path)

Damp moss under your heels

Drop your lantern in the dirt

Cold air tastes like iron tonight

I feel your breath against the bark

Unbutton your collar

Let the pine needles catch your skin

Sink into the black root

Open up your neck for me

(Sinking down)

Forget the light you left behind

Taste the velvet Bleed into the wet soil

Your heart ticks like glass

So heavy, so sweet

Don't run from the teeth in the dark

I've waited under this canopy

For five hundred cold years

Just to swallow your pulse

Sink into the black root

Open up your neck for me

(Sinking down)

Forget the light you left behind Taste the velvet Bleed into the

wet soil

Breathe me in

Press your chest to the frost

No map brings you home now

No sun reaches this deep (Give it up) Give it up

(Bite down) Bite down

Sleep beneath the pines

You belong to the wood now

Cold skin

Quiet heart (Mine) (Mine)