Serpent Beneath the Throne (1 ver.)

Verse 1

Marble halls and gilded cages

Crowns are worn on borrowed faces

I traced the cracks in painted plaster

Found a pulse beneath the master

Pre-Chorus

Cold breath rising through the flagstone

Old and patient never alone

Chorus

Serpent beneath the throne

Coiled where the light has never shone

Serpent beneath the throne

You built your kingdom on its bone

Verse 2

Scribes record the feast of victors

Kings rehearse their grand indictors

I pressed my ear against the floor

And heard the hunger of the door

Pre-Chorus

Scales against the marble grinding

Centuries of patience binding

Chorus

Serpent beneath the throne

Coiled where the light has never shone

Serpent beneath the throne

You built your kingdom on its bone

Bridge

Scepter falls and velvet crumbles

Empires whisper while it rumbles

Tear the flagstone

Wake the old one

Chorus

Serpent beneath the throne

Coiled where the light has never shone

Serpent beneath the throne

You built your kingdom on its bone

Outro

Tear the flagstone

Wake the old one

Serpent beneath the throne