[Verse 1] They fed me echoes, said they were prayers Locked my mouth with silver, taught me to stare I learned to breathe through the cracks in the night Where the gods don't speak, but the wolves still bite [Pre-Chorus] Don’t ask me to name what I buried inside It’s teeth and silence, and I wear it with pride [Chorus] I’m the hunger you hush when the church doors close A shadow that kneels where the wild thing grows You want my scream, but I gave it to stone Now I dance through the fire like it’s always been home [Verse 2] You stitched my ribs with ceremonial thread Every scar a verse I never said My body remembers what my voice forgot And my stillness speaks of the wars I fought [Pre-Chorus] Don’t trace the lines I carved just to last They’re not for you. They’re spells from my past [Chorus] I’m the hunger you hush when the church doors close A shadow that kneels where the wild thing grows You want my scream, but I gave it to stone Now I dance through the fire like it’s always been home [Bridge] No savior came. So I built my own name From the bones of the silence that taught me to stay Now I bleed in rhythm, I break in time And you’ll never unhear what I left between lines [Final Chorus] I’m the hunger you hush when the church doors close (But I bite, and I burn, and I never let go) A shadow that kneels where the wild thing grows (You want mercy? I lost that too long ago) You want my scream, but I gave it to stone I’m silence. I’m hunger. I’m never alone.
