BLACK PEARL HALO Verse 1 They wanted a saint with her hands folded neatly, A porcelain prayer on a shelf. Something easy to worship, Something that never became herself. So I learned how to disappear elegantly, Smile while the ship went down. But the sea keeps its own kind of scripture— It writes in salt, not crowns. I carried a splinter of sorrow for years, Buried deep where nobody goes. Funny what happens to pain in the dark— Sometimes it hardens. Sometimes it glows. Pre-Chorus You call it corruption. I call it alchemy. Chorus Black pearl halo, swinging slow. Born from the wound they thought would swallow me whole. Black pearl halo, cold black gold. Funny how the thing meant to destroy me made me beautiful. Verse 2 I know the taste of a velvet betrayal, Cherry-red lies dressed up as love. The kind that leaves fingerprints on your future, Then points to Heaven above. They told me, “Good girls don’t bite back.” Funny. Neither do ghosts. And I was tired of haunting my own life, Watching it happen through somebody else’s throat. Pre-Chorus Every cage looks holy when you’re raised inside it. Chorus Black pearl halo, swinging slow. Born from the wound they thought would swallow me whole. Black pearl halo, cold black gold. Funny how the thing meant to destroy me made me beautiful. Bridge I stopped asking forgiveness from people who needed my shame. Stopped mistaking obedience for virtue. Stopped carving myself smaller to fit inside somebody else’s fear. The ocean never apologizes for being deep. The moon never apologizes for disappearing. Why should I? Final Chorus Black pearl halo, watch it glow. Every curse they placed upon me became something I could own. Black pearl halo, cold black gold. Every broken piece they left inside me turned to treasure. Black pearl halo, hanging low. The world wanted innocence. The world wanted silence. The world wanted a girl who mistook suffering for holiness. Instead— it got me. Outro A pearl is a wound that learned how to keep its light.
