[Intro] I am the bitter stain that drinks the light, The silent rust that unweaves wrong from right. You felt the venom bloom before the ruin grew, And bowed to my decay before you ever knew. [Verse 1] I nestled in the quiet where your fractured thoughts reside, And poured my creeping ruin through the channels of your pride. You clawed to cast me out, but I had filled the vessel, Corroding altars where your grace and malice wrestle. I am the quiet poison eating marrow from the bone, The rot that claims the temple till it crumbles into stone. You listen for my footsteps, but I'm closer than your skin— The breath you draw to curse me is the way you let me in. [Pre-Chorus] You feel the violet venom crawl beneath your fragile skin, The quiet, eating ruin where your purity had been. Behind your eyes, I claim the throne you thought was yours to keep— You opened up the gates to me before you fell asleep. [Chorus] Can you feel the purple hunger crawling through your veins? I wash away your virtues, I revel in your stains! You cannot stop the ruin, you cannot fight the blight— I rewrite what is holy, I swallow up the light! The moment that you felt me, your fate was set in stone— I erase your fragile spirit and sit upon your throne! [Verse 2] I erode the righteous mantle that you bore with pride, Like rot that hollows out an oak while leaving bark outside. I pour a rising pestilence into your bleeding soul, Like venom drowning out a spring until the dark takes whole. I turn the purest saint into a murderer of kings, Like rust that turns a golden blade to jagged, ruined rings. I erase the memory of who you used to be, Like ashes scattered on the tide of a black and boundless sea. [Pre-Chorus] You feel the violet venom crawl beneath your fragile skin, The quiet, eating ruin where your purity had been. Behind your eyes, I claim the throne you thought was yours to keep— You opened up the gates to me before you fell asleep. [Chorus] Can you feel the purple hunger crawling through your veins? I wash away your virtues, I revel in your stains! You cannot stop the ruin, you cannot fight the blight— I rewrite what is holy, I swallow up the light! The moment that you felt me, your fate was set in stone— I erase your fragile spirit and sit upon your throne! [Bridge] Think I broke your spirit? I only reshaped molten glass. The altar turned to ash beneath a hand you never saw. My violet smoke has swallowed every fragment of your name, Unweaving all your history to feed my hungry flame. There is nothing left to pity, there is nothing left to save— The ruin ate the master, and the ruin owns the grave! Now look into the mirror through the creeping mist and see: The vessel isn't human—it is nothing else but me! [Chorus] Can you feel the purple hunger crawling through your veins? I wash away your virtues, I revel in your stains! You cannot stop the ruin, you cannot fight the blight— I rewrite what is holy, I swallow up the light! The moment that you felt me, your fate was set in stone— I erase your fragile spirit and sit upon your throne! [Outro] No saint, no killer—just my mold. A hollow shell, consumed and cold. The ruin has taken root in all you knew... There is no "us." There is only me in you.
