Intro] Mmm I was holy once Now the clay clings Yeah the clay still clings [Verse 1] I drift above that holler past the stones Where broken prayers rise thick as chimney smoke My feathers drag the briar torn and stained A tarnished seraph learning how to choke I watch you walk that midnight ribbon slow Your shadow longer than the law allows Every coal you carry lights my halo wrong And something sacred in me breaks its vows [Pre-Chorus] I ain’t clean no more Your blood runs holy in these veins of rust And every time you stumble back to dust I feel the whole damn heaven turn to rust [Chorus] If you’re lost then let me fall lost with you My mercy cuts me deeper than it ever cut you Where the sinners kiss the angels on the ridge of fire I bleed I burn I break still lift you higher Your ruin turns these wings to living flame Tarnished angel call my ruined name [Verse 2] The wind still carries every secret sin You whispered low where even God won’t go It tells the mountain spirits how I fell How one man’s darkness taught an angel how to know My voice used to ring like silver bells in light Now it cracks like thunder rolling through your fear When you drop down to your knees inside the night I scream revival through a throat of tears [Midsection] Take my grace take my breath Take the light I lost the day I chose your chest Every demon scatters when you call my name But I can’t scatter from this holy flame If redemption has a sound It’s the crack inside my wings when you come round [Final Chorus] Where the sinners meet the angels And the sky rips open like a wound of holy light I’m the angel heaven threw away You pulled me from the grave and made me fight Your hands lift what the clouds gave up for dead Tarnished angel I’m your sinner till the end [Outro] In the hollow in the hush Where ashes learn to dream of broken wings You taught this tarnished angel how to sing How to sing How a fallen thing still sings Mmm still sings Still sings
