[intro | vocals: close, low, watchful | instrumental: slow bass pulse, dark guitar shimmer, restrained drums | energy: beautiful, black, suspended] warm sugar on the silver flies turning in the air [verse 1 | vocals: controlled, intimate, contemplative | instrumental: deep bass, slow drums, sparse guitar textures | energy: elegant decay] crows arrive before the evening vultures follow close behind drawn to something glazed and tender drawn to heat they think is mine sugar rot beneath the lacquer perfume wrapped around the waste every sweetness keeps a doorway for the ones who come to taste [pre-chorus | vocals: softer, nearer, slow-blooming | instrumental: tension rising gently, bass forward, guitars breathing wider | energy: scented, inevitable] they can smell it through the satin through the gloss, through every thread through the little golden silence where the soft is nearly dead [chorus | vocals: magnetic, slow, darkly graceful | instrumental: fuller swell, drums steady, guitar bloom | energy: hymn-like, fatal] beaks part wings lower white eyes on the plate the sweeter the carcass.................. [verse 2 | vocals: calm, unreadable, almost tender | instrumental: slow pulse, richer bass, faint guitar abrasion | energy: luxurious ruin] beaks red as something sacred small and neat against the light every creature turns more lovely when it feeds in borrowed white i can feel them at the surface little prayers against the skin all that hunger dressed as reverence all that rot let gently in [chorus | vocals: fuller, colder, composed | instrumental: dark swell, deliberate drums, hovering guitar | energy: sumptuous, predatory] beaks part wings lower white eyes on the plate the sweeter the carcass....................... [bridge | vocals: low, close, almost inside the body | instrumental: stripped back, bass and toms, thin guitar scrape | energy: interior, uncanny] still warm under all the sugar still aware beneath the glaze while they gather at the serving with their polished little praise [chorus | vocals: restrained, final, eerie calm | instrumental: slow full section, black shimmer, heavy bass | energy: beautiful dread] beaks part wings lower white eyes on the plate the sweeter the carcass..................... [outro | vocals: soft, fading, chilling | instrumental: bass decay, light guitar shimmer, sparse drum tail | energy: ceremonial, unresolved] silver tray napkins folded the butler waiting scavengers taking
