Beautiful in Pain

intro

Static in the rearview glow

Heaven hanging dead below

Every streetlight flickers gold

Like the city sold its soul

Slow heartbeat

Cold concrete

Your name buzzing through the speakers

Like a curse I can’t delete

chorus

I’ve been driving through the afterlife

Wide awake at midnight

Smoke clouds, red lights

Everybody looks ghost-white

Tell me what’s the point now?

We just circle the drain

Love me like a car crash

I got angels in the dashboard

Demons in the trunk

Everybody talking big

But their eyes look numb

Late night echo in my headphones

Rain running black

I can hear the whole world cracking

Every time you call back

And you said...

“Nothing really lasts forever”

But forever hit different

When it died in bad weather

Now the skyline looks sick

Like it’s ready to cave in

Everybody wants heaven

Nobody wanna stay human

pre-chorus

And I...

Still see your shadow in the tunnel lights

Still hear your voice when the bassline spikes

chorus

I’ve been driving through the afterlife

Wide awake at midnight

Smoke clouds, red lights

Everybody looks ghost-white

Tell me what’s the point now?

We just circle the drain

Love me like a car crash

Beautiful in pain

pause

instrumental

chorus

If there’s a god tonight—

He left the engine running

verse 2

Now the walls shake!

Feel the ground split open

Blood-red sirens in the distance choking

no faith!

no sleep!

no signal coming through to me!

I watched the skyline fall apart

With your fingerprints around my heart

So light the fuse

And let it blow

If this is love

Then let me go

scream

go!

chorus

Everybody wants a savior

Nobody wants the scars

Everybody loves the fire

Till it reaches who they are

Dead static

Heart panic

Teeth grinding in the flood

If heaven’s really waiting

Why’s it drowning us in blood?!

final chorus

I’ve been driving through the afterlife

Barely breathing, tongue tied

Black smoke, blue lights

Now the whole sky burns white

Tell me was it worth it?

Everything we became

You can carve it on my gravestone...

“We were beautiful in pain”

pause

“We were