Cathedral of Shattered Crowns - What The Dark Keeps

Cathedral of Shattered Crowns

You wore your grief like iron lace. You sang in tongues you were denied. Glass in your throat. Still you cried. Still you rose.

Lyrics:
[Intro]
Piano in the dust
One candle
Cracked glass
Footsteps in the nave
Breath on stained brass

[Verse 1]
You wear your grief
Like iron lace
Thorns in your hair
Ash on your face
You trace the names
Cut in the pews
Every letter
Bleeding through

[Chorus]
This cathedral of shattered crowns
Echoes every vow you drowned
All the saints with their mouths sewn shut
Watch you rise from the ruin and rust
If the night wants to drag you down
Let it kneel when it hears your sound
In this cathedral of shattered crowns
You are the thunder
Breaking out

[Verse 2]
Choirs of stone
Hang from the height
Angels with cracks
Blackened by light
You sing in tongues
You were denied
Glass in your throat
Still
You cry

[Chorus]
This cathedral of shattered crowns
Echoes every vow you drowned
All the saints with their mouths sewn shut
Watch you rise from the ruin and rust
If the night wants to drag you down
Let it kneel when it hears your sound
In this cathedral of shattered crowns
You are the thunder
Breaking out

[Bridge]
[Tempo drops
Sparse piano and low strings]
Step by step
Down the spiral stair
Where every lost year
Waits in a chair
You kiss each ghost
On its hollow brow
(Stay)
Then tear the mourning
From you now

[Chorus]
This cathedral of shattered crowns
Burns with every truth you’ve found
All the saints with their masks torn off
Sing your name as the rafters cough
If the dark tries to claim your eyes
Let it shatter against your rise
In this cathedral of shattered crowns
You are the thunder
You are the thunder
Crashing down

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What The Dark Keeps is a cinematic metal project exploring mythology, mortality, and the cost of becoming.

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