A Halo of Lead

Verse 1

Ninety-seven colored air

Sky over Arizona

A bargain with the blind stars

Black dog at her heels

Thirty-three winters gone

Now the payment starts

Pre-Chorus

No crown of gold

No sulfur smell

Fire in the hollow

Ghost in the bell

Chorus

Suspira light through the wood

Tangled in the wires

Suspira fighting the blood

Fighting the old fires

You kept the angel close

Fed the demon instead

Walking through the garden

With a halo of lead

Suspira

Verse 2

Okamoto brushes bleeding

Pages soaked in rust

Dona whispers to the door

Old ink tells no truth

But the scripts don't lie

Breaking the iron floor

Pre-Chorus

No crown of gold

No sulfur smell

Fire in the hollow

Ghost in the bell

Chorus

Suspira light through the wood

Tangled in the wires

Suspira fighting the blood

Fighting the old fires

You kept the angel close

Fed the demon instead

Walking through the garden

With a halo of lead

Suspira

Bridge

Lady Death watches

Lady Death waits

Lady Death laughs

From the stone gates

Painted nightmares scream

First dream in the dirt

First dream in the paint

First dream in the hurt

Chorus

Suspira light through the wood

Tangled in the wires

Suspira fighting the blood

Fighting the old fires

You kept the angel close

Fed the demon instead

Walking through the garden

With a halo of lead

Suspira