(©) 2025 whitemonkey fractured faith in the heat of the fight searching for hope in the depths of night low hum like iron, low hum like prayer the altar between ribs is a place of war breath like a bell, tolling soft and bare I call your name into the ash and the air chorus fractured faith in the heat of the fight searching for hope in the depths of night God and Satan, a war on my soul in this darkness — can I be whole? we kneel on embers, we count the faults hands folded on wounds, the dark exalts God leads with love, slow, patient and cold Satan with desire — a fire uncontrolled the skin remembers what the heart cannot say a whisper that tastes of sin and of grace around the ribs a covenant of coal around the throat a promise — hard to hold chorus fractured faith in the heat of the fight searching for hope in the depths of night God and Satan, a war on my soul in this darkness — can I be whole? bridge lead me by the hand of light lead me through the hunger-night love that binds, desire that maims both are mirrors, both are names soft confession, the breath between teeth I barter for mercy in the hush beneath God’s hands like rivers, wide and slow Satan’s touch a furnace, wanting more we are split, we are patchwork and prayer we are the hush and the want laid bare one voice says stay; one voice says take one voice is tender, one voice will break chorus fractured faith in the heat of the fight searching for hope in the depths of night God and Satan, a war on my soul in this darkness — can I be whole? outro I fold the pieces like cloth on a stone I lay them open, I make them known this heart a chapel, this heart a pyre one asks for mercy, one hungers for fire fractured faith — and still I rise in the low-lit hush, beneath both skies God leads with love — and still desire calls in the heat of the fight, I am gathered, all.
