The Night Eats The World

[Intro] Wake up... Don’t call my name... Paris got teeth... And it don’t make a sound... [Verse 1] I came for the tapes, not a tomb in the dawn Not a dead little sun on a blood-red wall Passed out in the office while the whole night split Woke up to the silence like a knife in the ribs No scream in the hall, just a shape through the glass Dead eyes running fast where the morning should pass Locked in a sixth-floor grave with a view of the street Whole city looked gone, but the pulse wouldn’t leave Cabinets, canned food, ritual, lock every door Shoes by the bed, shotgun found through the floor Hands shaking bad, but the brain getting colder Every single hour made the room like a boulder I say her name once, let it rot in the frame Love got turned to static, blood swallowed the name Now I eat in the dark with the blinds cut thin And the dead move below like a storm with skin [Pre-Chorus] And the quiet gets loud in the back of my skull Every creak in the walls make the whole world null If the dead never speak, then the silence does I hear my own heart like a gun in the dust [Chorus] The night eats the world, bite by bite No howl, no warning, just teeth in the light Paris upside down, moon under my feet I stay alive with the drum and the grief The night eats the world, don’t open that door Love on the ceiling, blood on the floor If I make one sound, then the dark will unfurl The night eats the world, the night eats the world [Post-Chorus] Don’t move... They hear everything... Don’t breathe... They hear everything... [Verse 2] Named the man in the lift Alfred, I was that gone Talking to a corpse like he knew right from wrong Kicking through flats for the beans and the batteries Bandages, lighters, old ghosts in the cabinetry Found me a drum kit, beat on the dead sky Whole block answered back, red tide, head-high They climbed on each other like sin got a ladder Silent little avalanche, hunger getting fatter Shotgun by my temple, just to test if I turned Morning came cold and the barrel still burned Rain in a bucket, little fire for the winter Mind splitting slow like a mirror hit with cinder Saw a voice in the distance, thought maybe I’m saved Maybe hope still limps through the smoke and the grey But hope in this city got a wire-thin spine One foot on the roof and one foot in the night [Pre-Chorus] And the quiet gets loud in the back of my skull Every breath I take make the whole room dull If the dead never cry, then the silence bleeds I hear my own soul like it’s begging for sleep [Chorus] The night eats the world, bite by bite No howl, no warning, just teeth in the light Paris upside down, moon under my feet I stay alive with the drum and the grief The night eats the world, don’t open that door Love on the ceiling, blood on the floor If I make one sound, then the dark will unfurl The night eats the world, the night eats the world [Bridge] Burn the tapes, let the old life go Smoke in the rafters, red below Cross that gap where the living sway One wrong step and I fade away If there’s one more voice past the ash and the roofs Let it cut through the dark and tell me the truth Am I last, am I cursed, am I already gone Or just one more heartbeat dragging itself to dawn [Final Chorus] The night eats the world, floor by floor Fire in the walls and the dead want more Sky full of soot, lungs full of prayer I keep one last pulse hanging up in the air The night eats the world, bite by bite Still I drag my bones to the edge of the light If the city is dead, I’ll still snarl at the whirl While the night eats the world, while the night eats the world [Outro] No scream... No choir... Just breath... And wire... Paris below... Smoke in the swirl... I hear one sound... While the night eats the world...