11. No Vengeance Dawn 

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Lyrics:

We came for the reckoning

We came with the receipts

We came to collect

We've planted the seeds

I kick the gates off the hinges pearl dust in my teeth

Angels scatter like pigeons when the starving hit the street

Throne room’s empty just a dim halo and a shiny fucking crown

Floating in zero gravity laughing upside down

I tear through the seraph ranks wings rip like wet paper

Feathers burn mid air smell like Sunday's newspaper

Where’s the wrath? Where’s the fire? Where’s the fucking flood

All I find is a note in gold ink

“sorry we’re closed love god”

We brought the storm

You brought the shrug

We brought the war

You pulled the plug

No vengeance dawn

No trumpet no blade

No final war to end all wars

Just the echo of promises unmade

No vengeance dawn

Heaven’s out of stock

We stormed the gates for justice

And the gates just laughed and locked

I climb the vacant throne sit in the dent your ass has left

Carve my name with a broken halo deepest letter yet

The scrolls are blank the scales are rusted the book’s a paperweight

Every page just says “too late” in a thousand different fonts of hate

I scream for the lamb I scream for the lion

Only rubble remains on the ruins of Zion

The temple is dust the altar is broken

And silence replies where the glory was spoken

Breach the vault fault the exalted revolt revolved

Angels dissolved resolved into salt

I’m the riot in the quiet the violence in the vow

The uninvited guest who burned the fucking house down

Crown upside down blood in the chalice

I drink the absence taste the malice

No wrath no path just the aftermath laugh

The throne’s now a toilet I piss on the cenotaph

Seraphim staff meeting canceled

Hosts of heaven ghosted cancelled

I came for the war scroll found a “do not disturb”

So I disturb everything that ever claimed it had the nerve

No snap of the seal cool I brought six million more

Each one a middle finger nailed to your door

Burn it burn it burn the firmament down

Turn it on the silence crack invert the sound

Then I’ll be the dawn that drowns

The whole fucking thing down

I came for blood

You gave me absence

I came for fire

You gave me silence

No vengeance dawn

No final war cry

Just an empty throne spinning

Under a dead sky

No vengeance dawn

We stormed the gates for nothing

Left our rage on the floor

And the silence took everything

I sit on the ruins of your throne

Crown of ash in my hands

And wait for a dawn

That was never planned

No vengeance

No scorn

Just the sound

Of a war

We lost before we were born