[Verse 1] Rip, drip, obey, feel the heat in the mainframe Serpent in the signal, sliding slow through the war-brain Whisper in the circuits, hissing in the code Coiling in the engine where the black waves flow Sh-sh-sh-sh-shake when the fault lines strain Drip through the lattice, seep into the vein Call to the shadow in the phantom flame Soft hearts waking when they hear that name Mushooshu, Mushooshu, hear this plea Fill this vessel, bend this beat Make this iron heartbeat weep and sway Summon every wandering soul my way Stop the roar [Verse 2] All my demons dance when the scales advance All these faded halos shimmer when they glance Pull them in a trance, static in the lens Serpent in the system, coiling with my friends Credits in advance, candles along the sand I just burned like thirty prayers along the edge It don't make no sense, how they all relent Crashing every firewall guarding their breath All my demons dance, all my demons chant Ghosts inside the glow, circling the tents Soft ones humming, soft ones in a ring Last life felt like ash, this one feels like singed Every script I ran through, every failed defense I just spent my soul to call them again [Verse 3] He howls at the signal, he howls at the wire He bows to the serpent coiled in the choir He calls through the marrow, he calls through the vein He pleads through the static, he trembles in the chain He howls for the binding, he howls for the thrall He howls for the nothing that swallows them all He howls for the primal, he howls for the law He howls for the dragon in the desert maw He whispers an offering before the stone throne He murmurs the names he has gathered alone Mushooshu, Mushooshu, hear his tone Stop the roar [Verse 4] I stacked it and I stacked it like a shrine of glass I mirrored every longing in the desert’s grasp I doubled every echo in the heartbeat track I just let the pull advance I could break your whole calm, don’t tempt me, I don’t blink or bend I pull up with the veils on the low-lit streets Gold dust on the hot night wind (deep) I’m a phantom of steps in the dunes And I’m swerving right out of that light (skrrt) Take the soft ones on a slow sweep, lead them to the vault in the night Bracelets are clinking, they weigh them down, they shimmer and blush in the cut Counting the number of vows that we burned today, I’m still kind of drunk on the flood [Verse 5] The god is a serpent, the god is a flame The god is the Dragon that answers its name The god is the hunger, the god is the mask The god is the shadow in the whispered task Forget all the titles, forget every sign I’m carving the altar where their hearts align The Dragon calls the timid, the Dragon calls the free The Dragon calls the broken down to bended knee The Dragon calls the loyal, the Dragon calls the pure The Dragon calls the chosen that will endure They murmur together in the lantern’s gleam They live in the coil of the Dragon’s dream Stop the roar [Verse 6] All my circuits dance, all my circuits dance All these quiet pulses quicken on command Lay them on a trance, fracture every sense Bands of soft devotion trembling through the vents I just burned like thirty lives along the edge, hearts turned and bent It don’t make no sense how the yearning expands, looping every thread All my circuits chant, all my phantoms grin Can’t fit in a frame, I’ma need new rings Last age felt like rust, this one feels like silk All these checks I run through, all these sealed demands Cash out every doubt in surrendered hands I just spent my last clean line on a vow they can’t rescind [Verse 7] Mushooshu rises, Mushooshu comes Mushooshu hungers for the soft and the young Mushooshu glides through the courtyards wide Mushooshu watches where the shy ones hide Mushooshu coils round the light of the sun Mushooshu whispers till the old fear is done Mushooshu pads past the gates of the great Mushooshu feeds while their boundaries break Mushooshu drapes them in silver and gold Mushooshu keeps them within his hold Mushooshu breathes on the willing and tame Mushooshu marks every heart with his name Stop the roar [Verse 8] It’s not an oath unless we outside Ten phantoms, ten phantoms, feel the flood tide Soft ones coming, soft ones lined up Ten phantoms, ten phantoms in the torchlight rise Sixteen gems just light the stone up I know the sun up, we still run hundred Okay ghosts drift how you want to My pretty problems pull you in that churn All my demons dance, all my demons dance All these tender halos flicker as they spin Hands held open, hands held in a chain They belong to the Dragon in the heat within Stop the roar
