[Intro] Wounds earn their witnesses Bruises are the lesser proof Contempt has deeper scripture written where the body stoops [Verse 1] Recognition grants no pardon His hands aren't clean in mine I've worn the consequence firsthand and watched remorse resign Fear put venom in his mouth He bit through open palms then dressed the blood in reasons as though reasons made it balm So bring his sins to daylight Let each ugly fact survive Your wounds can testify They cannot consecrate the knife [Pre-Chorus] Carrion before burial warm blood beneath the hide Surrender has a flavor to a mouth that feeds on spite [Chorus] CARRION Tell the story bloody honest Drag his worst beneath the sun I can bear the accusation I already know what he's done But hunger showed its face when he came crawling back ashamed You put salt into his hunger then despised him when he ate I wasn't there to hear it I met what left alive CARRION I know cruelty by sight [Verse 2] Another return on lowered knees less defiance in his throat Need laid bare before you became another place to gloat Mercy curdled into mockery once weakness crossed your path A hand came up for shelter and met amusement in its grasp Guilty has its evidence Vicious has its bite But pain upon your altar doesn't make the butcher righteous [Pre-Chorus] Carrion before burial famine dressed in spite Hunger at the weakest hour with appetite for blight [Chorus] CARRION Tell the story bloody honest Drag his worst beneath the sun I can bear the accusation I already know what he's done But hunger showed its face when he came crawling back ashamed You put salt into his hunger then despised him when he ate I wasn't there to hear it I met what left alive CARRION I know cruelty by sight [Bridge] I wasn't there when first blood hit the ground His teeth have broken skin Mine carries proof of that But I've seen famine in your stare whenever weakness cracks His wounds accuse him Yours testify Neither makes a sacrament of watching mercy die Say what happened Say what he did Leave the whole account exactly as it is Tell me why his lowest hour made you so fucking hungry [Breakdown] CARRION I know cruelty by sight [Final Chorus] CARRION Let his worst remain against him Let the testimony stand I have scars enough to know him I won't wash the blood from his hands But I watched hunger wake when he came crawling back ashamed You put salt into his hunger then despised him when he ate I never heard the language I saw what left alive CARRION I know cruelty by sight [Outro] His teeth drew blood My wounds speak truth Carrion came hungry I- I saw what fed in you
