The pen is empty So what now Ash in the cathedral ghost on the throne Shepherd ate the flock and died alone Bled the altar dry picked the doctrine clean Nothing left to burn nothing left to mean Hunger doesn't care what it already ate Appetite survives the thing it came to take We devoured the lie and the lie is gone But the teeth are still here and the teeth move on Built ourselves on wreckage of a borrowed war Ruin is the only house we've ever known before Now the ruin's ours and the ruin's cold And the hunger in the marrow never does what it's told Never told They said we'd fall apart Without something to fight Funny We feel fine Shepherd fell asleep at night At night Been hungry so goddamn long We sharpened the knife Sharpen it Feel like taking a life Taking a life Set the table light Light Say grace Say grace We ate the whole fucking plate Ate it Hungry then Hungry now We always were Hungry I am not the wound I am what healed instead Healed instead Not the thing they broke I'm what survived the hit Survived it Every scar a deed to something they can't touch Can't touch Every fracture filled with something harder than their hush Their hush I don't need the enemy to know what I am What I am I don't need the cage to know that I'm not the lamb Not the lamb I existed before the doctrine named me sin Named me sin I'll exist long after every church has caved in Caved in Not the devil that they needed for the sermon's shape Sermon's shape Not the monster at the margin of their sacred page Sacred page Just a woman with a hunger and a sunless morning Sunless morning And the whole of the unmapped dark without a warning Without a warning Shepherd fell asleep at night At night Been hungry so goddamn long We sharpened the knife Sharpen it Feel like taking a life Taking a life Set the table light Say grace Say grace We ate the whole fucking plate Ate it Hungry then Hungry now We always were They spent two thousand years Building something To keep us afraid But we are Hungry Hungry Shepherd fell asleep at night At night Been hungry so goddamn long We sharpened the knife Sharpen it Feel like taking a life Taking a life Set the table light Say grace Say grace We ate the whole fucking plate Ate it Hungry then Hungry now We always were Hungry
