[Intro] [Short grinding guitar riff] [Verse 1] They dressed her in a burial gown And carried her beneath the ground No funeral bell could wake her eyes No one suspected she was alive He watched them seal the crypt at noon And waited for the rising moon A lantern swinging in his hand The holiest monster in the land [Chorus] Beneath the chapel The dead know his name He buried her breathing And called it a grave Beneath the chapel Where daylight never came The man who spoke of heaven Had become the thing he damned [Verse 2] She woke among the rotting dead And saw him standing by her bed She reached for him, relieved to see A man of God who'd set her free But every passage led to stone And every prayer returned alone The man she trusted barred her way And heaven had nothing left to say [Instrumental] [Crushing blackened death-metal riff] [Two guitars trade savage dissonant phrases] [Bridge] A cry beneath the earth A dagger in the dark One last hand against the wall One last failing heart He saw the [Verse 2] She woke among the rotting dead And saw him standing by her bed She reached for him, relieved to see A man of God who'd set her free But every passage led to stone And every prayer returned alone The man she trusted barred her way And heaven had nothing left to say [Instrumental] [Crushing blackened death-metal riff] [Two guitars trade savage dissonant phrases] [Bridge] A cry beneath the earth A dagger in the dark One last hand against the wall One last failing heart He saw the
