A Killing Word

Love in the time Secondhand social passage A scripted interaction Conversation is truly random Threshing at the end And shaking like a rushing vein This is the introduction now Graven effigy rendered before every eye Do your work with the desolate? Broken before the providence every saint Can you feel the lashing of the death sail? Visions of war Oh, there's no interest in pleasing the ones looking for Searching ways to misunderstand You Gutter press talk shows and you don't know me Testimony But I could never understand myself You can't know every bruise I've bought But I know what you're paying out to rake up its rot No reverence for life or limb But I would never disrespect the legacy they held Pressure mends if you apply it or fall beneath it Prisons and graveyards Are filled with heads that wore the crown Whisper me a killing word Oh, I will find you in the darkness In the darkness, everlasting Spitting fire and brimstone at every turn I see everything, I see everything Hail the restless, the ranks and to all that are starved We'll come back to, to accelerate Floor it all to the ground You can't know every bruise I've bought You can't know every bruise I've bought You can't know every bruise I've bought You can't know every bruise I've bought (we don't know ourselves) You can't know every bruise I've bought (we don't know our-) You can't know every bruise I've bought But I know what you're paying out to rake up its rot No reverence for life or limb But I would never disrespect the legacy they held Pressure mends if you apply it or fall beneath it Prisons and graveyards Are filled with heads that wore the crown This is the killing word Whisper to me a killing word Yeah Whisper to me a killing word