Claiming My Soul

[Intro] Wake me in the lightning

Raise me from the stone

Something in the rafters

Knows I’m not alone

[Verse 1] I opened my eyes to a room full of thunder

With hands reaching down as they tore me from sleep

The ceiling was breathing, the candles were bending

And something above me was grinding its teeth

They called me a miracle, called me creation

But miracles tremble when chained to a name

I stood like a king in a kingdom of vultures

Born under iron and baptized in flame

[Pre-Chorus] Every crown has a curse

Every throne has a hearse

Every prayer that they fed me

Only sharpened the worst

[Chorus] There’s a blade above the throne

And it knows me by my bones

Swinging slow where the dark winds moan

I was made, but not my own

There’s a blade above the throne

Hanging hungry, hanging close

If I rise, it drags me low

If I run, it follows home

[Verse 2] They dressed me in glory, they stitched me in hunger

They promised the heavens but handed me chains

The mirror was laughing, the walls were confessing

That birth is a doorway with teeth in the frame

I heard all their cheering turn rotten and hollow

Like choir bells cracked in a funeral hall

For what is a body brought screaming to daylight

If no one catches it the moment it falls

[Pre-Chorus] Every crown has a curse

Every throne has a hearse

Every hand that creates you

Can abandon you first

[Chorus] There’s a blade above the throne

And it knows me by my bones

Swinging slow where the dark winds moan

I was made, but not my own

There’s a blade above the throne

Hanging hungry, hanging close

If I rise, it drags me low

If I run, it follows home

[Bridge] I did not ask for breath

I did not beg for skin

I did not choose this chamber

Or the storm, they locked me in

But if I must be living

Then let the rafters shake

I’ll bite the hand of heaven

Before I kneel and break

[Breakdown] Cut the chain

Split the sky

Name the fear

Watch it die

Crown of ash

Heart of coal

Born in fire

Still not whole

[Final Chorus] There’s a blade above the throne

And it knows me by my bones

Swinging slow where the dark winds moan

I was made, but not my own

There’s a blade above the throne

But I won’t bow below

Let it fall and let blood show

I’ll meet the edge and claim my soul

[Outro] Wake me in the lightning

Leave me carved in stone

If the blade comes calling

I will not fall alone