[Intro | 8-bit glitch, backward choir vowel, thin reversed bells] [Choir, hummed] Ah—ah—ah— the other side has teeth. [Verse 1 | sung, low] They built a heaven, then a door They locked what would not kneel A shadow learned the underside And made the lock a wheel I followed quiet through a crack I thought I found a shore I didn’t hear the world fold back I only asked for more [Pre-Chorus | sung, rising] Don’t bless the dark that names you Don’t praise the wing that waits It only loves the living law Still breaking in your chest [Chorus | lead + inverted choir] Giratina, Giratina Saint of the inverted mile You wear a banishment like silk And smile a leftover smile Giratina, Giratina Mercy made of anti-light You teach the lost to trust the seam Then take the ones who hide [Verse 2 | sung] They find no bodies in the glass The glass is not the point The hymns go through in single file With shadows in the joint The world can keep its tidy sun This circle will not face A little 8-bit hymn still ticks Behind a second place [Pre-Chorus] Don’t look too long into the coils Six wings that learned to pray If you can see your own last step You’re already the prey [Chorus] Giratina, Giratina Saint of the inverted mile You wear a banishment like silk And smile a leftover smile Giratina, Giratina Mercy made of anti-light You teach the lost to trust the seam Then take the ones who hide [Verse 3 | sung, quieter] It doesn’t hunt along the ground It hunts the need for rules It waits until you beg a god To put away the cruel It drinks the order before flesh It files you with the wrong It leaves a hallway like a church Where every door is gone [Bridge | choir sung] [Choir] A renegade, the stories wrote That violence sent away They printed it in children’s books So no one thinks to stay [Lead, sung] That line was never written kind It wasn’t made to warn It was a hunting call in rhyme For anyone still warm [Chorus | bigger] Giratina, Giratina Black chapel, no way home You fold a body into seams And wear it while you roam Giratina, Giratina Reverse learned a tune You leave the first world quieter And hungrier too soon [Final Chorus | lead + full choir] Giratina, Giratina Saint of the inverted mile You wear a banishment like silk And smile a leftover smile Giratina, Giratina Say it if you dare The world turns inside. The shadow looks in. It already knows you’re there. [Outro | sung, thinning] [Lead] If the quiet begins to carry A voice you almost know— [Choir] Don’t step through. Don’t step through. That’s how the gospel gets in. [Lead, fading] Giratina… [Choir, last held note] …still hungry.
