[Tempo: Slow, cinematic, building into a powerful, gravelly belt Cold Conviction] [Vocalist: Gritty female Contralto with a heavy rock rasp] [Verse 1: Low, husky, intimate whisper] The air is thick with more than just the rot Arguments like static, while the blood is still wet and hot I see Cat in "boss mode," barking at the ghosts While Shane is cradling a body like a holy host Christian’s throwing stones, looking for a head to blame Calling Jimmy a plague, putting Jenova to shame But I’m just watching Cat, his eyes like flint and stone In a yard full of monsters, he’s never felt more alone. [Pre-Chorus] He says we have to break them before they start to rise No room for "maybe" or the "light" inside their eyes He’s chasing Jenova, demanding she be the one To put a blade through the girl before the day is done. [Chorus: Powerful, raspy belting, raw emotion] And he says he’d do it to me… With a steady hand and a heart of ice He says he’d do it to me… To pay the Reaper’s goddamn price Is it mercy? Is it hate? Or just the weight of a world we can’t navigate? He says he’d do it to me, so I wouldn’t have to turn While the rest of the world just watches it burn. [Verse 2] Jenova’s screaming "privacy" through a veil of tears While Kim holds the dagger, facing all our darkest fears Inside a quiet tent, where the prayers go to die They’re stopping a sister from opening her eyes And Cat, he just storms off, a soldier in a war Where we don't even know what we’re fighting for anymore He looks at me so blunt, no honey on his tongue A dirge for the living while the song is being sung. [Bridge] [Miley-style raspy growl] Is he a hero? Or is he just hollowed out? Is there any love left in all this scream and shout? He told me to my face, "I’d make sure you stayed gone" Because the dead don’t sleep, they just wait for the dawn. He’d find someone else to hold the blade to my head Because he loves me too much to see me... not dead. [Guitar Solo - Slow, distorted, mournful] [Chorus: Powerful, raspy belting, raw emotion] Yeah, he’d do it to me… With a steady hand and a heart of ice He’d do it to me… To pay the Reaper’s goddamn price Is it mercy? Is it hate? Or just the weight of a world we can’t navigate? He says he’d do it to me, so I wouldn’t have to turn While the rest of the world just watches it burn. [Outro: Vocal fry, fading into silence] Suck-ass Cat... with your cold conviction. Belle’s gone now. No more blood in the church. Just the silence... And the dirt. [Fade out on a single, low piano note]
