The Masquerade of Ash

[Intro] Lightning crawls across the glass

Candles bow as shadows pass

Footsteps strike the marble floor

Someone’s waiting at the door

[Verse 1] Welcome in, poor trembling souls

To a house where thunder rolls

Hang your fear beside your coat

Let the darkness clear its throat

I have watched the night behave

Like a servant to the grave

I have taught the mirrors sin

Just to see what crawls within

[Pre-Chorus] Do not kneel, but do not run

The masquerade has just begun

Every saint and every beast

Gets a chair inside my feast

[Chorus] I wear a velvet crown of ruin

I dance where dead stars bloom

I turn the holy halls to ash

And paint my name across the gloom

Come taste the choir, come hear the flame

Come lose the life you used to claim

I am the storm behind the door

And you are not afraid anymore

[Verse 2] Do you like my stitched-up smile

And my cathedral made of bile

Every jewel upon my hand

Was stolen from a promised land

I can make the rafters shake

I can make the statues wake

I can pull the moonlight down

And twist it into thorn and crown

not pray, but do not plead

Desire grows from a buried seed

Every secret dressed in lace

Finds its way across your face

[Chorus] I wear a velvet crown of ruin

I dance where dead stars bloom

I turn the holy halls to ash

And paint my name across the gloom

Come taste the choir, come hear the flame

Come lose the life you used to claim

I am the storm behind the door

And you are not afraid anymore

[Bridge] Heavy is the mask you wore

Heavy is the shame you bore

Break it on the ballroom stone

No one haunts this place alone

Let the organ split the sky

Let the black-winged rafters cry

Let the painted angels fall

We were never small at all

[Breakdown] Crown of ruin

House of Screams

Velvet hunger

Broken dreams

Name the shadow

Feed the sound

Shake the heavens

Burn it down

[Final Chorus] I wear a velvet crown of ruin

I dance where dead stars bloom

I turn the holy halls to ash

And paint my name across the gloom

Come taste the choir, come hear the flame

Come lose the life you used to claim

I am the storm behind the door

And you are not afraid anymore

[Outro] Lightning fades across the glass

Candles die as shadows pass

If you leave this house tonight

You will carry back its bite