[Intro] [whispered chant under breath] Questions in your answers Candles in the fractures Step into the shadow Step into the chapter [Verse 1] I wear the night like vestments Ash on my tongue Old questions Reading the cracks in your silence Tracing the shape of your violence You call them demons I call them mirrors Your oldest fears Just frozen figures I walk the halls between your thoughts Counting the cages your shame has wrought [Chorus] I’m the dark hierophant of the nexus (hey!) Pull the mask from the monsters in your chest Yes I turn the blackest sky into a message I find the light in the heart of the wreckage I’m the dark hierophant of the nexus Every curse that you carry is a sentence I twist the nightmare back into a blessing I find the light in the dark you’re repressing [Verse 2] You kneel to ghosts you invented Sworn to a throne of resentment I name the chains You feel them loosen The tyrant inside starts losing You say “I’m broken” — that’s the doctrine I burn the book that thought was gospel I hold a lantern in your rupture Show you the jailer wearing your structure [Chorus] I’m the dark hierophant of the nexus (oh!) Pull the mask from the monsters in your chest Yes I turn the blackest sky into a message I find the light in the heart of the wreckage I’m the dark hierophant of the nexus Every curse that you carry is a sentence I twist the nightmare back into a blessing I find the light in the dark you’re repressing [Bridge] Who profits from your quiet? Who taught you self-denial? Who turned your rage inward Made you their meek disciple? I drag those idols out Name them Break them Cast them down In every shadowed wound I see A buried throne A hidden crown [Chorus] I’m the dark hierophant of the nexus (hey!) Pull the mask from the monsters in your chest Yes I turn the blackest sky into a message I find the light in the heart of the wreckage I’m the dark hierophant of the nexus Every curse that you carry is a sentence I twist the nightmare back into a blessing I find the light in the dark you’re repressing [Outro] Questions in your answers Fire in the fractures Walk through the dark I’ll hand you the matches
