Blind Piety

[Intro] [Sub-bass throbs like a dying heart beneath black marble, glacial pads breathe frost, a cracked bronze bell tolls thirteen times, female voice soaked in endless cathedral reverb and fractured echoes][Verse 1] [Breathy, fragile female voice, almost childlike, glassy music-box arpeggios flicker like candles drowning in their own wax] A linen cloth is bound across my eyes White as the lies the priests call paradise I kiss the altar though I cannot see For the holy must be blind, they said to me [Verse 2] [Voice closer, trembling, filtered as if spoken through the blindfold itself, sub-bass growls low and hungry] They taught us darkness is the purest sight That pupils burn the moment they drink light So we clawed our own eyes to prove devotion true And smiled while the sockets bled into the pew [Pre-Chorus] [Rumbling drone thickens, slow heartbeat kick, distant choir of mutilated angels] Stitch by stitch they sewed the world away So love could never find a face to betray [Chorus] [Haunted double-tracked female voice, one intimate and cracked, one soaring and glacial, four-on-the-floor pulse wrapped in decaying organ and shivering saw waves] Holy, holy, blindfold soaked in tears Holy, holy, we murder what appears Kneel, my children, let the darkness steer Holy, holy, sight is the only sin to bear [Verse 3] [Voice now layered with whispers from every direction, synths warp like melting stained glass] Blind brides in procession down the nave Hands on the shoulders of the one we just made grave We call it mercy when the knife is kissed The holy must be blind to whose throat we twist [Verse 4] [Cold, almost robotic detachment beneath the reverb, kick drops to half-time, everything feels underwater] See nothing, hate purely, pray without doubt The gods love sockets empty, hollowed out If ever a child lifts the cloth to breathe We stone her in the square so faith won’t leave [Bridge] [All rhythm collapses, only a single detuned lullaby box and wind screaming through ribcages, overlapping whispers] Pull the blindfold tighter, little ones Faces are dangerous under the sun If we saw one another We might stop the fun [Final Chorus] [Apocalyptic wall of distorted choirs, supersaws howling like seraphim set on fire, kick pounding like collapsing heaven] Holy, holy, rip the cloth away Holy, holy, watch the gods decay Screaming children with bleeding eyes ablaze Holy, holy, blindness was the only grace Holy, holy, now we finally see There was never anyone Only you and me [Outro] [Everything pitch-dives into abyss, blindfolds fall like snow, last breath over a single dying bell] …we were always alone… amen… amen… the dark was home…