Let It Break on Me (Red Vigil)

[Verse 1] I was raised where the candles burned low Where the holy water stung like a blade Where they taught me the names of the hungry dead And the price that the living must pay Then they sent me out wi’ rifle and rite Cross in one hand, steel in the other A soldier marchin’ into the black Still callin’ each comrade brother [Pre-Chorus] But the night came crawlin’ through the wire And the dead did not stay dead I still hear the crack of the bone and prayer Still see the blood we shed [Chorus] Let it break on me Every curse, every ghost, every godless thing unseen I’ve been cut, I’ve been burned, I’ve been scourged clean And I still stand mean So let it break on me I’ll be thorn, I’ll be iron, I’ll be all they need I buried too many, aye, I still hear them scream Never my family Never again, not while I breathe [Verse 2] Saw good folk torn like paper in storm Heard sermons drown in the gunsmoke roar Saw a lad lose his face to a thing with no name And another dragged under the floor They called me Demon-Eye in the ranks Half in mockery, half in fear But I kent by the way they wouldna meet my gaze They thought damnation walked right here [Pre-Chorus] And when I crawled from that butchered dawn The only one left to blame I wore their deaths like chains on my back And I carved them into my name [Chorus] Let it break on me Every curse, every ghost, every godless thing unseen I’ve been cut, I’ve been burned, I’ve been scourged clean And I still stand mean So let it break on me I’ll be thorn, I’ll be iron, I’ll be all they need I buried too many, aye, I still hear them scream Never my family Never again, not while I breathe [Verse 3] Salt on the scars and ash on the skin Blessed thorn pressed into the bone Blood in the basin, smoke in the lungs Punishment sharp as stone I washed and I prayed and I fasted in pain Till my hands would stop their shake Not for mercy, nae, never mercy Only enough so I wouldnae break [Bridge] Roseveil prays and the shadows bend Silkshade laughs in the teeth o’ sin Gilt Law grins like a knife in silk And I stand where the dark comes in This is my oath, this is my creed My watch, my lash, my rose, my need I lost one army, I lost too much Now death’ll have to go through me [Breakdown] Come for the door and you’ll find me there Come for my blood and I will not scare Come for my kin and I swear by flame I’ll carve repentance in your name Aye, I am the vigil Aye, I am the brand Aye, I am the last one left Still holdin’ the line by hand [Final Chorus] Let it break on me Every curse, every ghost, every godless thing unseen I’ve been cut, I’ve been burned, I’ve been scourged clean And I still stand mean So let it break on me I’ll be thorn, I’ll be iron, I’ll be all they need I buried too many, aye, I still hear them scream But not my family No, not my family Never again, not while I breathe [Outro] If there’s a curse on this house tonight Then let it break on me If there’s a blade in the dark for the blood I keep Then let it come for me I am Red Vigil I do not flee And none o’ mine Will die afore me