Lyrics
[Verse 1] [female vocal, soft, pleading] [strings: cello, violin underneath] You don't belong down here with the ash and the smoke I've seen your wings before they broke This isn't justice, this is just a cage you made Come home with me, let the fire fade [Pre-Chorus] [female vocal, building intensity] [strings swelling] You call it punishment, I call it a lie You're not the monster you keep asking why I know the man before the fall I remember you before the walls [Chorus] [female vocal, powerful, full band] You don't have to stay in hell to pay For a sin that only lives in your head Come back, come back, I'll show you the way You chose this cage, so you can choose instead [Verse 2] [male vocal, low, defensive] [heavy guitars return] You don't know what I did to get this crown You weren't there the night I burned it down I don't deserve the wings, I don't deserve the light This is the only place I get it right [Pre-Chorus] [female vocal, building intensity] [strings swelling] You call it punishment, I call it a lie You're not the monster you keep asking why I know the man before the fall I remember you before the walls [Chorus] [female vocal and male vocal, layered, tense] You don't have to stay in hell to pay For a sin that only lives in your head Come back, come back, I'll show you the way You chose this cage, so you can choose instead [Bridge] [female vocal, pleading] I didn't fall to watch you rot [Bridge] [male vocal, guttural, resisting] You don't know half of what I fought [Bridge] [female vocal, pleading] Then let me carry some of it [Bridge] [male vocal, guttural, resisting] This weight was never yours to lift [Final Chorus] [female vocal, powerful, strings and full band, most intense] You don't have to stay in hell to pay For a sin that only lives in your head Come back, come back, I'll show you the way You chose this cage, so you can choose instead [Outro] [female vocal alone, strings only, fading] You chose this cage... [Male vocal alone] And I choose to stay