bloody knuckles

this phalanx that we are with hearts up on our shields

we are holding

but not for long

one by one we fall only here to rise again

in fields of armor we remain

our bodies twisted by the words we can't explain

bloody knuckles stain the walls and poison fills my lungs

as the beauty of your voice cuts me down

and though we weave in motion through the passing of our days

we are devotion

we are the pain

we are beauty

that lost its way

broken hearts we sing along to

the hymns of our devotion

we gave it all and we lost our minds

we don't need to be forgiven

it's like falling on our swords

just for taking a stand

it's the journey of love

that we'll never understand

beauty in our union like a fire in the void

serenading the hopeless like passing of days

through it all we knew we'd stand like the brave

no beginning

no end

with like names old as days

without solitude

without thought

without feeling

with bloody knives

and razor blades

we die for our devotion

we gave it all

we lost our minds

we don't need to be forgiven

forgiven you never asked to be alive

forgiven for all the hell that you survived

forgiven