We riseβ¦ we riseβ¦ Midnight spills across the marble Silver dripping from the sky We are children of the quiet Where the mortal heartbeats cry Velvet shadows wrap around us Perfumed with a living heat Every pulse a sacred echo Every vein a forbidden feast Feel it calling through the marrow Ancient as the oceanβs flood Not desire born of mercy But the covenant of blood Crimsonβ¦ Let it fall like holy rain Crimsonβ¦ Wash away the ache, the pain We are the thirst that never sleeps We are the vow the darkness keeps In every heartbeat, in every flood We are the hunger We are the blood Moonlight paints the skin in porcelain Breath like frost upon the air We do not chase, we do not tremble We simply know that life is there Fangs like ivory confessions Kiss the boundary of the vein In that fragile crimson moment Death and rapture share a name Hear the choir of the fallen Hear the velvet current sing Every drop a dark communion Every swallow, everything Crimsonβ¦ Sacrament of endless night Crimsonβ¦ Burning bright without the light We are the storm beneath the skin We are the sin that pulls you in In every whisper, in every flood We are the hunger We are the blood I remember when my heart beat I remember warmth and sun Now eternity surrounds me Cold and infinite and one If this is curse then let me wear it Like a crown of rubied flame For the thirst is not my prison It is how I stake my claim Sanguis vitaeβ¦ Sanguis lunaeβ¦ Aeternumβ¦ aeternumβ¦ Crimson! Let the heavens split in two Crimson! Every night we are renewed No grave can hold us, no dawn can save We are the pulse inside the grave In every shadow, in every flood We are the hunger We are the blood Desire Rose
