You Played the Victim ft. Poison Lilly [Blackline Audio]

///*****/// [Instrumental Intro - dark church ambience, low drone, distant bell, slow guitar swell] [Verse 1 - low haunting female alto vocal, sparse guitar, intimate and wounded] I keep longing to go back To the life I used to know Before your million-dollar smile Showed the rot beneath the gold I was blind beneath your altar I was young enough to trust I mistook your holy language For a shelter made of love [Pre-Chorus - rising female vocal tension, drums enter, restrained anger building] But the truth came through the cracks In the prayers you used to fake You were gathering up the timber While they tied me to the stake [Chorus - heavy alternative metal, wide female vocal doubles, massive emotional release] Still you had the guts to play the victim While your disciples drank your poison down You pointed at me and call me viper But you were the serpent all along Still you wore the clothes like you're the chosen Still you turned the crowd against my name You saw a butterfly worth saving But saw me as a worm digging my own grave [Post-Chorus - heavy guitars, female vocal release, bitter and defiant] Played the victim Played the saint Washed your hands Absolved of my pain [Verse 2 - darker female vocal, tighter rhythm, more controlled venom] I remember when the lost lambs Were the ones you claimed to feed Before sinners learned to tremble At the mercy you made them need You made fear sound like devotion You made guilt look like grace Then you fed me every story That would keep me in my place [Pre-Chorus - bigger build, floor tom pulse, female vocal intensifies] Your hands were clean in public Yet there was blood on our walls You always preached forgiveness But I prayed for your downfall [Chorus - heavy alternative metal, full band, female lead vocal belting with layered harmonies] Still you had the guts to play the victim While your disciples drank your poison down You pointed at me and call me harlot But you were the deviant all along Still you wore the crown like you're the king Still you worked to cover me in shame You saw me as a sinner worth saving But I was already digging your grave [Bridge - half-time atmospheric breakdown, low female vocal, haunted and confessional] I was a girl from a broken home Without love, but drowning in hate So you dressed the cage like a temple Then corrupted me with poisoned faith Your crows come to peck my eyes Your saints come for my throat You yelled at me, called me wicked While you read from a book you never wrote [Bridge Build - female vocal intensifies, choir layers rise, guitars swell] If there is a life past this body If there is judgment beyond this cell Let the Lord see your iniquity And cast you straight down to hell [Final Chorus - massive dark choir layers, heavy drums, female lead vocal at full power] Still you had the gall to play the victim While your disciples drank your poison down Spat at me and called me evil But you were the devil all along Still you smiled at me through bloody teeth Still cursed my very name This twisted soul you felt worth saving Just buried you in that shallow grave [Outro - slow collapse, fading choir, low guitar feedback, exhausted female vocal] Played the victim Played the saint Washed your walls Of all the bloody stains Played the victim Played the saint God saw the sins You could not erase....