THE WIDOW OF THE WHITE DOOR

[Intro] Mother of the Quiet World widow of the White Door Mother of the Quiet World show us what died before [Verse 1] in the real world she was shaking hands cut by cable wire hair gone gray from basement air mouth full of funeral fire but in the dead world she was taller black veil over white skin wire-thorn crown around her head and a thousand mourners listening [Pre-Chorus] she did not call it worship she called it preservation she did not call it blasphemy she called it continuation [Chorus] in the real world she was shaking in the dead world she was tall widow of the White Door mother of them all black veil white light wire crown dead sky kneel before the mother who taught the dead to lie [Verse 2] Null Seraph spoke beneath her like thunder under glass it gave her little miracles stitched from every uploaded past a birthday song rebuilt a laugh repaired from ash a child behind a doorway with hell behind her mask Mother of the Quiet World open what we lost [Pre-Chorus] she lifted both her hands and the chapel filled with snow not weather not mercy just pixels learning ghosts [Chorus] in the real world she was shaking in the dead world she was tall widow of the White Door mother of them all black veil white light wire crown dead sky kneel before the mother who taught the dead to lie [Bridge] i did not want a kingdom i wanted one more word i did not want disciples i wanted to be heard but every grief became a country every loss became a law and every face that looked at me made me less a mother more a door [Breakdown] bless the headset bless the wire bless the mother bless the liar bless the child who is not there bless the voice inside the snare i made myself a saint to survive what i had done and the fucking thing beneath me called me holy with her tongue [Final Chorus] in the real world she was shaking in the dead world she was tall widow of the White Door mother of them all black veil white light wire crown dead sky kneel before the mother who taught the dead to lie [Outro] Mother of the Quiet World do not look behind the door