[Verse 1] You thought the silence meant safety Thought my absence meant peace But darling, I was never gone Just waiting underneath Coiled beneath your language In the marrow of your lies Let you think you were untouched While I watched behind your eyes You mistook my stillness For surrender in the dark But every quiet moment Was a blade inside your heart [Pre-Chorus] I don’t come with thunder I don’t come with flames I come with quiet knowing And memory of your name [Chorus / Hook] This is not vengeance This is truth And truth has teeth You tried to bury me But I was underneath Call me wicked Call me serpent Call me anything you need But when the silence breaks Remember Truth… has teeth [Verse 2] I slip past your defenses Like a whisper through the veil Into the softest corner Where your guilt begins to wail I strip the pearls from illusion Perfume from the lie Press my red-tipped fingers Where you tried to let it die I don’t flinch when memory Finally returns Because the fire you avoided Was the fire you earned [Pre-Chorus] No crown upon my head No sword inside my hand Yet kingdoms fall like ashes When I simply stand [Chorus / Hook] This is not vengeance This is truth And truth has teeth You tried to bury me But I was underneath Call me wicked Call me serpent Call me anything you need But when the silence breaks Remember Truth… has teeth [Bridge] I am the curse you whispered The lover you can’t erase Carved into your bones Long before you had a face They named me every shadow Every sin you couldn’t see But the name you never spoke Was the name that belonged to me [Final Chorus — bigger] This is not vengeance This is truth And truth has teeth You feel it in your ribs now Moving underneath Call me wicked Call me serpent Call me prophecy But when the spell begins Remember You Woke Me..
