Verse 1 You wore devotion like a borrowed coat Perfume and promises stitched in the seams Spoke of forever with a silver throat While digging trapdoors under our dreams Your shadow crossed the kitchen light Like a thief who knows the floorboards well I heard the truth before that night In the silence where the guilty dwell Pre-Chorus No storm announced you leaving No trumpet split the sky Just fingerprints on trust And a well-rehearsed goodbye Chorus No apology for the unfateful No mercy carved in stone You break the oath, you break the table You stand before it all alone From bedroom lies to council halls The verdict rings the same No apology for the unfateful No pardon for your name Verse 2 I’ve seen the polished courtroom grin The flag draped high above the fraud Hands on hearts with hollow skin Trading truth for cheap applause They toast with glasses never cracked While cities bleed behind closed doors A lover’s whisper, a contract signed Both rot beneath the same floorboards Pre-Chorus No thunder rolls for traitors They slip through velvet air But every vow abandoned Leaves a fracture everywhere Chorus No apology for the unfateful No mercy carved in stone You break the oath, you break the table You stand before it all alone From wedding bands to ballot calls The reckoning’s the same No apology for the unfateful No pardon for your name Bridge Let the fiddle cry like history Let the drums march slow and plain This is older than our country Older than desire or gain There’s a ledger in the marrow Ink that will not fade You can bury it in velvet But the debt has still been made Final Chorus No apology for the unfateful No blessing from the sky You chose the blade, you cut the cable Now watch the empire dry From whispered sins to public falls The fire bears one flame No apology for the unfateful No pardon for your name Outro (half-time, stripped) Not every wound needs vengeance Some just close the gate No apology for the unfateful Only consequence and fate
