[Intro] Stone walls, warm hands, cold breath in my lungs Clock ticks like a bomb and it’s branded in my tongue [Verse] The fucking calendar on the kitchen wall had a jagged hole where you should be I was two years old and learning how to fucking walk when the iron gate swallowed the key A silver frame sat dusty on the mantle holding a stranger with my goddamn eyes While the neighbors traded stories in the driveway about the fucked-up nature of your crimes They told me justice had a heavy gavel and it struck a blow against our cursed name I grew up measuring my height against the shadow of your specific kind of fucking shame [Chorus] Thirty-six winters passed through bars, steel teeth in a concrete hell I was sharpening my bones into weapons while you rotted in your cell It is a heavy anchor dragging through the dirt of every goddamn road I pave How do I carry the blood of a person who took what he never should have fucking craved The sentence wasn't only yours to serve in that cold and hollow fucking place I spent my life dissecting every scream that’s in my own fucked-up face [Verse] I spent my fucking teens looking for a reason or a lie that I could finally believe But the court records don't offer mercy and the victims don't get a fucking reprieve I had to learn to love the woman who raised me while loathing the half of me that’s you Every time I touched a hand in kindness I wondered what a monster’s hands would fucking do Now the gates are swinging open and the hair upon your head is turned to white as sin But thirty-six years of fucking darkness doesn't bleach the rot that’s crawling underneath your skin [Chorus] Thirty-six winters passed through bars, steel teeth in a concrete hell I was sharpening my bones into weapons while you rotted in your cell It is a heavy anchor dragging through the dirt of every goddamn road I pave How do I carry the blood of a person who took what he never should have fucking craved The sentence wasn't only yours to serve in that cold and hollow fucking place I spent my life dissecting every scream that’s in my own fucked-up face [Chorus] Thirty-six winters passed through bars, steel teeth in a concrete hell I was sharpening my bones into weapons while you rotted in your cell It is a heavy anchor dragging through the dirt of every goddamn road I pave How do I carry the blood of a person who took what he never should have fucking craved The sentence wasn't only yours to serve in that cold and hollow fucking place I spent my life dissecting every scream that’s in my own fucked-up face [Outro] Stone walls, warm hands, now your shadow’s at my door If I let you in tonight, this house won’t be a home no more
