5. Silenced

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Lyrics:

Under the altar the white robes turn grey

Sewn to the floorboards with the fight of the day

Hands folded neat tongues nailed to the teeth

They were told to cry out but the order’s were weak

I taste the iron where the incense should rise

Smoke and ash clogging the skies

Their mouths are booming with surgical threat

Petals of black instead of the red

I kneel in the spill of a thousand kills

Run for the kills and lick at the quills

Each martyr a statue each statue a cage

Frozen mid scream on a blood stained page

How long how long

Was the question they swallowed

How long how long

Till the question went hollow

Silenced

We cry to the sky

Silenced

No cry reaches that height

Silenced

The blood dries to dust on the stone

Silenced

Even god left us alone

They promised us thunder do sight of the flash

A scalpel of mercy ripped open the gash

Eyes wide unblinking glazed permanent stare

Witness to nothing but perfectly still air

I pry at the stitches pull wire from flesh

Tongue hits the floor with a wet useless thresh

No sound no echo no mercy no spark

Just the soft pop of a throat in the dark

Gagged congregation stitched in formation

Mouths full of scripture turned forced meditation

No howl no appeal just the kneel and congeal

Blood pools polite as the flesh starts to peel

I’m the hitch in the hymn where the harmony splits

The skipped syllable spitting in bottomless pits

They said “wait for the flame” but the flame never came

Now the altar’s a butcher block carving my name

Thread through the lips pull tight bit the whip

Just the drip drip drip of apocalypse

No fifth seal kiss just the hiss of the miss

Welcome to worship where the sermon is this

Silence

We were the voices

We bear the cost

We turn to oil

We burn down the cross

We suffered in silence

Now we’re the dross

Silenced

We cry to the sky

Silenced

No cry reaches that height

Silenced

The blood dries to dust on the stone

Silenced

Even god left us alone

God left us alone

I lie with the others

Piled on top of my fallen brothers

Boards splinter from blood on the floor

Learning the shape

Of forever

No more