Funeral Ring

[Intro] Rain on the chapel, ash in the aisle

Thunder keeps time with a crooked smile

Candles are shaking, the choir won’t sing

I came with a vow and a funeral ring

[Verse 1] I saw you standing by the graveyard gate

With your black dress torn by the hands of fate

The sky split open, and the church bells cried

And every dead rose leaned to your side

I had a prayer, but it burned in my throat

I had a promise carved into a note

I had a heart full of rust and flame

And every scar kept spelling your name

[Pre-Chorus] So take my hand where the shadows bend

Love is a wound that refuses to end

If heaven won’t have us, then let it beware

We’ll build our own throne in the smoke and the air

[Chorus] Say you’ll haunt me, say you’ll stay

Drag my soul through the dark doorway

Love me harder than death can lie

Hold me close when the angels cry

Say you’ll haunt me, say you’ll burn

Teach this broken world to turn

If I’m damned, then let it be

Just say forever belongs to me

[Verse 2] The preacher ran when the windows broke

The saints on the wall disappeared in smoke

Your eyes held storms no hymn could tame

And I knelt laughing inside the flame

I don’t need white lace, I don’t need light

I don’t need blessings from trembling rites

I need your voice when the earth goes still

And your wild heart bending mine to its will

[Pre-Chorus] So wear my vow like a crown of thorns

We were made from ruin, not roses and morns

Let the world call us wicked and strange

Some sacred things are born from change

[Chorus] Say you’ll haunt me, say you’ll stay

Drag my soul through the dark doorway

Love me harder than death can lie

Hold me close when the angels cry

Say you’ll haunt me, say you’ll burn

Teach this broken world to turn

If I’m damned, then let it be

Just say forever belongs to me

[Bridge] I don’t want a quiet life

I want thunder, teeth, and truth

I want every shattered star

Falling with me and you

Let the chapel rot behind us

Let the old bells crack and bleed

I would rather die remembered

Then live without the love I need

[Breakdown] Take the ring

Break the chain

Kiss the storm

Bless the pain

Raise the veil

Wake the grave

Love is not

For the tame

[Final Chorus] So wear my vow like a crown of thorns

We were made from ruin, not roses and morns

Let the world call us wicked and strange

Just say forever belongs to me

[Outro] Rain on the chapel, ash in the aisle

You took my hand with a razor smile

The bells fell silent, the whole sky knew

I was never alive till I burned for you

Say you’ll haunt me, say you’ll stay

Say you’ll haunt me, say you’ll burn

Teach this broken world to turn

If I’m damned, then let it be

Just say forever belongs to me

[Fade out] Rain on the chapel, ash in the aisle

You took my hand with a razor smile

The bells fell silent, the whole sky knew

I was never alive till I burned for you