Black Veil

They swore the night would hide my sins… But even silence lets them in… I see the world through a broken frame, Gold-lined edges but the picture’s fake. They paint the truth in shades of red, Dress up the lies and call them sacred. Tick, tick— (count the hours, count the sins...) Drip, drip— (watch the ink bleed through my skin...) I let the darkness pull me in, But I won’t drown—I’ll learn to swim. Tell me—who do you pray to at night? When your hands are as stained as mine? Every ghost that you hide in the dark, Knows your name, knows your scars. Don’t you see the black veil’s fallin’? You pull the thread just to watch me fray, A marionette in your wicked play. Keep my heart inside a cage, Then wonder why it won’t behave. (No escape…) You wrote the rules, you played your game. (No escape…) But who’s the puppet now? Tell me—who do you pray to at night? When your hands are as stained as mine? Every ghost that you hide in the dark, Knows your name, knows your scars. Don’t you see the black veil’s fallin’? They swore the night would hide my sins… But even silence lets them in…