Ancient Hunger

Verse 1

Found on a doorstep in the rain

Uncle Paulie told me life was just about the pain

Cold nickel on the trigger and I did not blink

A hundred empty bottles by the kitchen sink

The Franchetti family debt was written in the red

I woke up on my birthday with a buzzing in my head

Pre-Chorus

Twenty-one years in a cage of bone

A crown of snakes upon a throne

They want to pick my skeleton clean

Chorus

I am the Darkness

Older than the start of time

I am the Darkness

A monster living in his prime

I am the Darkness

I am the Darkness

Post-Chorus

Kill them all

Kill them all

Deep black

Jet black

Verse 2

Jenny was the only piece of grace

But the world is just a hollow and a lonely place

My ribs are splitting open and the snakes come out

A hundred thousand voices scream and shout

The Angelus is looking for a war today

She will never find a better way to make me pay

Pre-Chorus

Twenty-one years in a cage of bone

A crown of snakes upon a throne

They want to pick my skeleton clean

Chorus

I am the Darkness

Older than the start of time

I am the Darkness

A monster living in his prime

I am the Darkness

I am the Darkness

Post-Chorus

Kill them all

Kill them all

Deep black

Jet black

Bridge

Eat the hearts of the weak ones

Eat the souls of the brothers

No more brothers

No more uncles

Only the shadows remain

Chorus

I am the Darkness

Older than the start of time

I am the Darkness

A monster living in his prime

I am the Darkness

I am the Darkness

Post-Chorus

Kill them all

Kill them all

Deep black

Jet black