The Serpent's Altar

Verse 1

Black candles gutter on the altar stone

I kneel down where the serpent slept

Cold iron bites my open palm

The old ones answer when the moon is dead

Blood runs backward down the wall

Something wakes beneath the abbey

Chorus

Rise up from the pit

Rise up from the pit

I gave you my name

I gave you my name

Rise up from the pit

Verse 2

Hollow saints with hollow eyes

Watch me carve the circle wide

My shadow walks without me now

The choir sings in a tongue of graves

Every prayer I learned was a lie

So I unlearn them one by one

Chorus

Rise up from the pit

Rise up from the pit

I gave you my name

I gave you my name

Rise up from the pit

Bridge

Burn the cross

Bury the psalm

Break the bell

I am not afraid

Chorus

Rise up from the pit

Rise up from the pit

I gave you my name

I gave you my name

Rise up from the pit

Rise up