Nothing Clean

Instrumental Intro

(Orchestral swells, rain, distant thunder)

Verse 1

These walls were built to hold the sky

But they cradle only ash

I traced your name upon the frost

And watched the daylight die

Pre-Chorus

The bells have all rusted

The choir has fled

A silence that hungers

Feeds on what's left

Chorus

Bring down the cathedral

Let the stained glass bleed

Every prayer I whispered

Was a seed the wind would steal

Bring down the cathedral

I've nothing left to kneel

Verse 2

You wore a crown of winter

When you told me love was law

I held your hand through every plague

And you turned my heart to straw

Pre-Chorus

The hymns have grown hollow

The candles burn black

A faith that devours

Never gives back

Chorus

Bring down the cathedral

Let the stained glass bleed

Every prayer I whispered

Was a seed the wind would steal

Bring down the cathedral

I've nothing left to kneel

Bridge

(Spoken, low)

I set the pyre

I lit the wick

I carved the name

On the crucifix

Guitar Solo

(Anguished, soaring over doom-laden chords)

Breakdown

(Slow, crushing)

Crush the stone

Crush the bone

Let the rafters fall

Let the angels crawl

Outro

(Distant, fading)

And the moon...

The moon remembers everything...

And the rain...

And the rain...

Washes nothing clean