Something Beautiful and Wrong

Verse 1

I was young before the temples stood

Seventeen and never learned to gray

My hands stayed small my hunger never would

The village burned my name in ash and clay

Pre-Chorus

And every evening starts the same

The pull the promise and the shame

Chorus

I am older than your gods

Older than the prayers you fold

I am hunger in a girl

That the centuries can't hold

I am older than your gods

And I'll be here when they're gone

Something beautiful and wrong

Post-Chorus

(Older, older, older)

(Older than your gods)

Verse 2

I've outlived every tongue that spoke my name

I've watched cathedrals crumble into sand

The moonlight finds me exactly the same

A child's face with a predator's hand

Pre-Chorus

And I still try to turn away

Then the thirst decides I stay

Chorus

I am older than your gods

Older than the prayers you fold

I am hunger in a girl

That the centuries can't hold

I am older than your gods

And I'll be here when they're gone

Something beautiful and wrong

Post-Chorus

(Older, older, older)

(Older than your gods)

Bridge

I don't want to be this thing I am

But I don't know how to be

Anything but this

Drop

I am older than your gods

Older than your gods

Chorus

I am older than your gods

Older than the prayers you fold

I am hunger in a girl

That the centuries can't hold

I am older than your gods

And I'll be here when they're gone

Something beautiful and wrong

Post-Chorus

(Older, older, older)

(Older than your gods)

(Ooh, older than your gods)