First Taste of Ashes
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[Verse 1] You walk in Black lace Red glass in your hand Same tilt of the head when you laugh Same look back I’ve died to see once more Your pulse taps time In the hollow of your throat I taste a different century Behind every word you spoke It cuts me open [Pre-Chorus] Don’t stand so close You don’t know what that does You don’t know how long I’ve been starved of us [Chorus] You’re my first love You’re my first taste of ashes Same ghost eyes in a different life Same heaven dressed in blackness I hear her crying through your tongue I feel her dying in your lungs Every breath you steal from the room Pulls my hunger in I want the pulse behind your perfume [Verse 2] Candles lean toward you Like they know your secret name Your shadow fits her outline Perfect as a picture frame You say my name — it cracks Like winter in my veins You touch me Two fingers slow on my wrist Say you feel nothing at all I feel too much My mouth remembers burial My hands remember dirt I have held love colder than you And learned how much that hurts [Pre-Chorus 2] Your heartbeat Hammers against my restraint Each throb a prayer I was never meant to say [Chorus (Heavier)] You are her in softer skin A resurrection I can’t survive If I drink you, you are mine If I spare you, you stay alive Are you yours Or are you ours? Tell me which of you I need I drag my mouth along your vein And call it worship While I bleed [Bridge (Near-Bite Moment – Strip Instrumentation)] Say her name I whisper You don’t understand I’m kissing a grave in your shadow Digging it up with my hands Your throat That pale Invitation in candlelight My fangs press mercy into skin And tremble at the bite One more inch And you are endless One more taste And you are mine Your heartbeat begs me Soft and blind [Final Chorus (Tragic Restraint – Heavier, Slower)] I hear her crying through your tongue I feel her dying in your lungs You are my first taste of ashes My sweetest unfinished grave If I drink you You stay with me If I love you You are saved So I step back From paradise Let the hunger carve me thin Let eternity devour me Before I ever drink your sin I want the pulse behind your perfume But I will not take your breath I have killed for love before I will starve instead [Outro (Minimal – Low Drone Only)] Stay alive Even if it kills me Even if every century Reopens this wound You are not hers You are not mine And I will walk back Into the dark Alone Hungry Divine [(whisper)] I remember how she tasted.