Lyrics

Verse 1 (Gestas, mocking):**
*"Crown of thorns, but the blood’s in your eyes—*
*Where’s your kingdom now, king of the flies?*
*You carved your sermons in dust and decay,*
*Now we’re all just rats in the empire’s charade.*
*Why won’t you scream? Why won’t you fight?*
*Or are you just a ghost who’s afraid of the light?"*

**Verse 2 (Dismas, rebuffing):**
*"These nails aren’t justice—they’re the truth we’ve earned,*
*But your hands are clean though the crosses burn.*
*We stole the daylight; you gave it away.*
*My scars are a hymn—yours are blameless as rain.*
*Mock the storm, but I’ll bend like a thorn,*
*There’s a light in your veins that outshines my scorn."*

**Chorus (Duality):**
*Gestas: "Let the nails bite deeper, let the rot set in—*
*If heaven’s so close, why’s it cracking your skin?*
*Dismas: We deserve the splinters, the rust, the ache,*
*But you’re a shattered star that the night couldn’t take.*
*Gestas: The gallows is home for thieves and frauds!*
*Dismas: And grace is a blade that cuts *both ways*, God."*

**Bridge (Gestas & Dismas):**
*Gestas: "I’ll laugh as the sky turns to coffin-black paint—*
*Dismas: Then laugh while I whisper… ‘Remember me, saint’."*
*(Dissonant guitar riff crescendos)*

**Outro (Dismas, fading):**
*"Gestas dies in the thunder,*
*I slip through the rain…*
*Two thieves, one shadow,*
*One name.*
*Gestas: (Echoing) ‘*Crucify every savior who bleeds in vain*’…*
*Dismas: (Whispered) ‘The storm ends…*
*…in paradise.’"*