[Intro] (filtered, distant) [F – whispered, stacked] Iron psalms… under skin… Holy silence… discipline… [M – low, entering] Teeth of chrome beneath the veil [F – swelling harmony] Salvation… through the nail… [Verse 1] (tight, harsh, percussive phrasing) [M] Wolves in steel have come Their howls beckon the storm The stench of heresy Has led them to your door [M – slightly more melodic] Innocence choked with oil and ash Scriptures reforged in burning brass [F – soft echo layer] Reforged… reforged… [M] Haloed visors, vacant light Sanctify you—rewrite [Pre-Chorus] (build tension with harmony lift) [M] Iconoclasts [F – harmony bloom] (Iconoclasts) [M] In brilliant [F] White and red [M] Anointed hands— [F – tightening harmony] Will break you [M + F together] Bend your head [Chorus 1] (big, synth-driven, chantable) [M – punchy lead] Assimilate [F – sustained harmony] (Assimilate) [M] Join Them [F – rising chord tone] Join Them… [M] Desecrate Your God [ALL – explosive stack] AND SMILE! [M – continuation, driving] Eradicate What you were [F – melodic counterline] Leave it behind… [M] Consecrate Their fraud [ALL] AND SMILE! [Bridge] (drop intensity, eerie control) [M – escalating then harsh break] As they appropriate your faith Twisting your history To control your mind [F – overlapping, hypnotic] (It was always meant to be…) [M] They’ll tell you this is fate [F – tightening loop] Fate… fate… fate… [M – rising intensity] They rewrite the bones of truth Carve their gospel into you [F – harmonic dissonance] Into you… [M] Every doubt a sin confessed [ALL – sudden hit] Every scream is BLESSED [Verse 2] (heavier, more theatrical) [M] Sacred flesh hanging From their gilded grins Watch your father’s Contorted effigy [M –harsh, hard stop] Burn [F – airy, haunting pad] Burn… [M-offset rhythm, hard stop] BURN... [M] Tongues of fire cleanse the past Nothing pure is built to last [F – echoing inversion] Nothing lasts… [M] They canonize the shattered form Call desecration the “norm” [M – commanding] This is all for your own good Bow, heathen—misunderstood [F – almost sympathetic] You are understood… [M – harsher] Grace delivered, sharp beneath [ALL – punctuated] Mercy… in the teeth [Pre-Chorus 2] (short, driving) [M] Kneel before [F] The cleansing hand [M] Your defiance [F – tightening harmony] Is unmanned [Chorus 2] (fuller, more layered than first) [M] Assimilate [F – higher harmony] Assimilate… [M] Join Them [F – cascading thirds] Join them… [M] Desecrate Your God [ALL – biggest hit yet] AND SMILE! [M] Obliterate Your memory [F – dissonant harmony] Let it die… [M] Consecrate Denial [ALL] AND SMILE! [Bridge 2] (polyrhythmic vocal layering opportunity) [M] They’ll say you chose this suffering [F – offset rhythm] (You chose… you chose…) [M] They’ll brand it rebirth while you’re unraveling [F – rising harmony cluster] Reborn… Reborn… [M] A sanctified collapse of will [F – sustained chord] Be still… [M – final push] An emptier mind is easier to fill [Emotional Breakdown] (strip to pads + minimal pulse) [F – exposed, fragile triad harmony] Do you feel it… Crawling in your veins… [M – soft, conflicted] Something holy… [F] Something chained… [F – leading now] Was it ever yours to keep? [M – answering] Or buried somewhere far too deep? [ALL – fragile unison] If you let them take your name… [F – lingering harmony] Will you change? [M – almost breaking] Will you stay the same…? [Final Chorus] (maximum density, counterpoint vocals) [M – dominant] Assimilate [F – soaring] Assimilate! [M] Join Them [F] Join Them! [M] Desecrate Your God [ALL – massive] AND SMILE! [M – aggressive] Annihilate Your former self [F – melodic arc above] Let it go… [M] Consecrate Exile [ALL] AND SMILE! [Outro] (slow, unresolved, haunting) [M – stripped back] Bastardized abomination of love So graciously absolving you from sin [F – distant, echoing] Absolving… absolving… [M] Steel wolves are baying at your door for blood [F – whispering harmony] They’re at your door… [M – final line, ambiguous tone] Will you let them in? [F – unresolved chord, fading] Let… them… in…
