[Verse 1 – harsh] They raised a cathedral out of glass And told the children “Do not move” Every whisper cracked a window Every question shattered truth The pews were lined with razor edges The sermons carved in stone And every saint had hollow eyes That looked like mine alone We prayed beneath a ceiling That trembled at a sigh One wrong breath and heaven Would collapse from the sky [Chorus – harsh] In the cathedral of shattered saints I learned to bleed without a stain Smile while the walls vibrated Swear that nothing was in pain Every hymn a warning shot Every blessing just restraint I was raised in holy silence In the cathedral of shattered saints [Verse 2 – harsh] Stained glass stories Painted fathers into kings But behind the altar rail You could hear the fractures sing They said “Faith requires stillness” So I froze inside my skin When the floor began to splinter They called it discipline [Breakdown] Kneel. Don’t tremble. Bow. Don’t break. The glass remembers everything Even what it doesn’t take. [Bridge – distant clean under harsh] If holiness is fragile Why was I the one who cracked? If perfection is the standard Why was I the one attacked? [Final Chorus] In the cathedral of shattered saints Where innocence was just a draft I built armor from the fragments Of every broken laugh If God was in the building He never once looked back So I became the hurricane That glass could not outlast
