Infernal Requiem

[Intro | Low Energy | Breath-Soft Falsetto | Light Electronic Pulse + Solo Violin] You left the glass warm by the bed I kept my mouth where your name had been A little mercy in the medicine A little blood beneath the skin [Verse 1 | Low Energy | Muffled Intimate Tenor | Sparse Bass Pulse + Felt Piano] I learned your weather by the pressure in my teeth By the way the room went narrow when you breathed You said I made a chapel out of need I said you made a knife look clean There’s a towel on the floor from the night I split My knuckle on the sink trying not to call again I wore your absence like a fitted thing Buttoned wrong under my ribs [Pre-Chorus | Rising Energy | Tight Chest Voice | Violin Swell + Half-Time Kick] And I do not know If I came here to be healed Or opened slow [Chorus | High Energy | Strained Soaring Tenor | Crashing Drums + Wide Guitar Lift] Take what is left of me Press your thumb into the seam I was only ever whole When you were pulling me apart Make me unreadable Make my throat a locked machine I will sing until the words Break down inside my heart [Verse 2 | Medium Low Energy | Veiled Melodic Murmur | Trap Hats + Bowed Violin Figure] There’s salt in the carpet where I knelt too long Counting all the ways I made a god from wrong You held the silence like a loaded palm Then kissed the bruise and called it calm I can feel the bass in the bathroom wall Like a second pulse I cannot own at all My tongue goes numb on the final vowel Still I shape it for you now [Pre-Chorus | Rising Energy | Compressed Pleading Tenor | Snare Build + Violin Tremolo] And I do not know If I wanted to be loved Or swallowed whole [Chorus | High Energy | Strained Soaring Tenor | Crashing Drums + Wide Guitar Lift] Take what is left of me Press your thumb into the seam I was only ever whole When you were pulling me apart Make me unreadable Make my throat a locked machine I will sing until the words Break down inside my heart [Breakdown | Extreme Energy | Gritted Harsh Vocal + Clean High Scream | Low-Tuned Guitar Chugs + Double-Kick Drums] Bite down I am still yours Bite down I am still yours Bite down I am still yours Hold me under Till the body learns the hymn Hold me under Till the body lets you in [Breakdown Peak | Extreme Energy | Clean Sustained High Scream | Full-Stop Hits + Violin Screech] I am still yours (Aah—) [Bridge | Medium Energy | Shaking Clean Tenor | Solo Violin + Distant Drum Room] After the thunder leaves the frame After the blood dries into lace Will you know me without the pain Or only by the shape it makes I put my hands beneath the flood I felt no answer in the water Only the low end coming up Only the altar getting darker [Final Chorus | Peak Energy | Desperate Layered Tenor | Massive Drums + Bass Drop + Strings] Take what is left of me Press your thumb into the seam I was only ever whole When you were pulling me apart Make me unreadable Make my throat a locked machine I will sing until the words Break down inside my heart [Outro | Low Energy | Fading Muffled Tenor | Violin Harmonics + Soft Electronic Pulse] You left the glass warm by the bed I kept my mouth where your name had been No prayer came back But I still leaned in [End]