Clockwork Curse

[Intro] The floorboards crack, the candles bend

The hallways twist where hours end

A crooked grin on every face

The dead are learning how to pace

[Verse 1] I found the door beneath the stairs

Where dust was breathing funeral prayers

A painted clock without a hand

Was laughing from the mirror stand

The guests wore masks of bone and lace

With velvet rot around their face

They bowed to me, then screamed my name

And dragged the night into the flame

[Pre-Chorus] Step once left where the shadows lean

Step once right through the old machine

Bend your knees when the rafters cry

Spin your soul till the years go dry

[Chorus] Fall into the clockwork curse

Let the black bells grind in reverse

Dance while the ceiling starts to crawl

Dance while the portraits leave the wall

Raise your hands to the shattered chime

Lose your breath to the teeth of time

When the house begins to turn

Let the midnight ballroom burn

[Verse 2] The organ growled, the staircase shook

The moonlight drowned in a leather book

A woman laughed with a serpent tongue

And sang of years that died too young

The drummer beat on a coffin lid

The choir hissed what heaven hid

I tried to run, but the floor replied

“No one leaves what time denied.”

[Pre-Chorus] Step once back where the old ghosts feed

Step once down where the angels bleed

Turn your head when the mirrors stare

Kick your sins through the choking air

[Chorus] Fall into the clockwork curse

Let the black bells grind in reverse

Dance while the ceiling starts to crawl

Dance while the portraits leave the wall

Raise your hands to the shattered chime

Lose your breath to the teeth of time

When the house begins to turn

Let the midnight ballroom burn

[Bridge] No tomorrow, no yesterday

Just rusted hours in a graveyard sway

Every second splits its skin

And lets the older darkness in

The young grow old, the old return

The saints all sweat, the sinners learn

If time is God, then God has lied

Because every clock in here has died

[Breakdown] Tick, tick, break the bone

Turn, turn, not alone

Crack, crack, split the sky

Laugh, laugh, years go by

Step through ruin

Spin through pain

Clockwork kingdom

Rust and rain

[Final Chorus] Fall into the clockwork curse

Let the black bells grind in reverse

Dance while the ceiling starts to crawl

Dance while the portraits leave the wall

Raise your hands to the shattered chime

Lose your breath to the teeth of time

When the house begins to turn

Let the midnight ballroom burn

[Outro] The floorboards crack, the candles bend

The hallways twist where hours end

The clock strikes twelve, then strikes thirteen

And drags us back into the machine

[Final Shout] Fall into the clockwork curse