I Am The Beast

Intro

Rise

Verse 1

I carve my name in the altar stone

Candles burn and the temple moans

Seven sigils burn beneath my skin

The righteous has fled and the wolves begin

I am the wound that the heavens made

I am the debt that no god repaid

Pre-Chorus

Break the bread of the blackened sun

Break the bread

Every knee goes down to none

Chorus

I am the beast that the light denied

I am the beast

Crown me lord of the burning tide

I am the beast

Nations kneel and the rivers dry

I am the beast

Born to reign where the angels died

Post-Chorus

Bow

Bow

Bow to the sickle and the reaper

Verse 2

My mother wept when the trumpets sounded

My father overthrown me to the pit below

Now every throne is a hollow chair

Now every prayer is a puff of air

They built their temples on borrowed bone

I tore them down with a single roar

Pre-Chorus

Break the bread of the blackened sun

Break the bread

Every knee goes down to none

Chorus

I am the beast that the light denied

I am the beast

Crown me lord of the burning tide

I am the beast

Nations kneel and the rivers dry

I am the beast

Born to reign where the angels died

Bridge

Shatter the sky

Scatter the flock

Scorch every altar and salt the ground

I climb the spire to the eye of the storm

Hear me

Hear me

Hear me now

Chorus

I am the beast that the light denied

I am the beast

Crown me lord of the burning tide

I am the beast

Nations kneel and the rivers dry

I am the beast

Born to reign where the angels died

Post-Chorus

Bow

Bow

Breakdown

Ash to ash

Bone to clay

The heavens rot away

Ash to ash

Flesh to rust

The holy word is dust

Verse 3

The sky bleeds out into the sea

There is no god to look at me

The final star begins to fade

Within the empire I have made

I wear the crown of rusted thorns

Outro

No light!

No borders!

No face!

No god!

I am the void!

The beast is awake.