[Intro] [A lone, melancholic acoustic guitar plays a slow southern melody] Played the victim in a worn-out coat... Sold your own blood for a dollar note. You locked the doors, you severed the ties, And built a kingdom on a mountain of lies. [Distorted bass creeps in] You blamed the world, you washed your hands, Left innocence to drown in the shifting sands. Yeah, you played the saint while the shadows grew... [Scream] NOW IT’S TIME TO PAY FOR WHAT YOU PUT 'EM THROUGH! [Heavy metal drop] [Verse 1] He spun his web with a smile and a smirk, Playing the victim while he did all the work— Of twisting the truth till the guilty looked clean, The most manipulative coward you’ve ever seen. He fed the whole family a script full of lies, While he slowly watched the light die in his children’s eyes. Yeah, the aunts and the uncles just bought in the game, Handed over the keys while he shifted the blame. He isolated the blood, locked the doors from without, Drowning their spirit in a slow-bleeding doubt— Watching them shatter from deep in their core, While he stood on their neck and just asked for some more! [Chorus] You sold your own flesh for a dollar bill, Then sat on your throne on a coward's hill! With your rotten-toothed grin and your dirty lies, You watched the life drain from your children's eyes! You played the poor victim while you pulled the strings, Blocking the warmth that a family brings! You locked 'em in darkness, you watched 'em break— Now choke on the hell that you helped to make! [Verse 2] Buried alive in a house full of ghosts, Starving for love from the ones needed most. Kneeling on the floor with a shattered mind, Screaming up at heaven, asking why God made them blind! "Why am I a burden? Why am I a curse?!" Watching every day get a thousand times worse! While the family turned away, obeying the beast, Feasting on the lies while the children decreased. Slicing through the flesh just to see if they're real, Watching the warm blood spill, unable to feel The beat of a heart that was ready to snap, Caught in the jaws of a calculated trap! Kicking out the support, letting the rope take hold, Choking on the darkness in a world so cold— A final desperate gasp as the air turns thin, Drowning in the hell that their father put them in! [Chorus] You sold your own flesh for a dollar bill, Then sat on your throne on a coward's hill! With your rotten-toothed grin and your dirty lies, You watched the life drain from your children's eyes! You played the poor victim while you pulled the strings, Blocking the warmth that a family brings! You locked 'em in darkness, you watched 'em break— Now choke on the hell that you helped to make! [Verse 3] Just as the world turned its back and let go, And the cold rope tightened in the shadows below... The heavens tore open without a delay, With no hesitation, He rushed to the fray! God didn't wait, didn't stop, didn't blink— Snatched up His child from the dark river's brink! Blindingly fast, in His holy white light, He pulled me right out of the jaws of the night! With the devil and my dad both laughing in glee, Thinking they finally finished off me— God wrapped His arms round my shattered soul tight, Bathed me in fire, filled the dark with His light! And when the enemy tried for a second dark try, The Almighty thundered down: "Step back or you die—this soul belongs to ME!" Holding me close where the monsters can't reach, Teaching this broken-down spirit to preach! [Bridge] [Spoken, dripping with venom] "You'll never be nothing... you brought this on you..." [Scream] BUT THE LIES ARE ALL DEAD AND THE HEAVENS ARE TRUE! You tried to bury me deep in the dirt, To feed on the sorrow and cash in the hurt! You locked the doors and you built your wall, BUT YOU WATCHED YOUR ENTIRE KINGDOM FALL! [Beat drops out] You thought I was alone... You thought I was already gone... BUT GOD NEVER ABANDONED ME! I WAS NEVER ALONE!! [Guitar solo] [Final Chorus] You sold your own flesh for a dollar bill, Then sat on your throne on a coward's hill! With your rotten-toothed grin and your dirty lies, You watched the life drain from your children's eyes! You played the poor victim while you pulled the strings, Blocking the warmth that a family brings! You locked 'em in darkness, you watched 'em break— Now choke on the hell that you helped to make! [Outro] (Spoken softly) Saved from the shadow... Held in the light... You couldn't break what He holds tight.
