Bow Before Me

Lyrics

[Intro] Cold iron morning, salt upon my tongue I count the faces of the things I've run from A locked room breathing underneath my skin Tonight I turn the key and let the reckoning in [Verse 1] There’s a boy in the mirror with a match in his hand He learned every weakness, he knows where I stand He feeds on the hours when the house settles down But I dragged him into daylight and I’m wearing the crown The old fear rattles like chains in the hall I hear it call my name, I refuse the call I’ve carried these devils like stones in a coat Now I set them on the table and I cut their throats [Pre-Chorus] No more bargains, no more borrowed breath I have looked straight through the face of death [Chorus] Bow before me, bow before me Every demon wearing my name Kneel in the dust where you tried to hold me You don’t own this heart again Bow before me, bow before me I am the hand upon the throne I made a kingdom from the ruins And I rule what I once called home [Verse 2] There’s a woman of panic with a mouth full of glass She tells me every good thing is too fragile to last There’s a king made of anger, red behind the eyes He built his little prison out of alibis I know their voices, I know their design They carved their commandments in the back of my mind But I found a black river beneath all the noise And I came back carrying my unbroken voice [Pre-Chorus] No more bargains, no more borrowed breath I have looked straight through the face of death [Chorus] Bow before me, bow before me Every demon wearing my name Kneel in the dust where you tried to hold me You don’t own this heart again Bow before me, bow before me I am the hand upon the throne I made a kingdom from the ruins And I rule what I once called home [Bridge] Let the floorboards shake Let the black bells ring I have buried every oath That made me a lesser thing If the night comes back It will find me awake With a steel door in my chest And no chain left to break [Instrumental Break] [Final Chorus] Bow before me, bow before me Every demon wearing my name Kneel in the dust where you tried to hold me You don’t own this heart again Bow before me, bow before me Hear the whole dead palace groan I made a kingdom from the ruins And I rule what I once called home [Outro] The mirror is quiet, the match has gone cold The boy drops his weapon, the story unfolds I don’t need to kill him, I don’t need to flee He bows at my feet, and he belongs to me