Cathedral of My Chest

[Intro]
Ash on my tongue
Air tastes like blame
I trace your name
In the frost on the window

[Verse 1]
You left your ghost
Hanging in my ribs
Every slow breath
Cuts like it always did
I wear your words
Like a second skin
Too tight to move
Too thin to give in

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m staring at the ceiling
Waiting for it to cave
If this is what you wanted
Why am I the one who breaks?

[Chorus]
You built a church inside my chest
Then burned it down and called it rest
I keep on praying into smoke
Into smoke
Into smoke
If I am just a place you left
Carved your name and then forget
Why does every echo say
You’re not okay
I’m not okay

[Verse 2]
I talk to walls
‘Cause they don’t walk away
I stitch my scars
Into something like faith
You said “it’s fine”
With that trembling jaw
I heard the quake
Under every word you dropped

[Pre-Chorus]
I’m begging for a feeling
That doesn’t feel like knives
If you were only hiding
Why did you leave me blind?

[Chorus]
You built a church inside my chest
Then burned it down and called it rest
I keep on praying into smoke
Into smoke
Into smoke
If I am just a place you left
Carved your name and then forget
Why does every echo say
You’re not okay
I’m not okay

[Breakdown]
Tear me open
Let the colors run (let it run)
I’m a mausoleum
For the things you’ve done
Say you’re sorry
With a shattered breath
I’ll hold the pieces
Till there’s nothing left

[Bridge]
Are you still there
In the cracks of my bones?
I scream your name
But it comes out stone
If you come back
To this ruin I am
Will you recognize
Your own shaking hands?

[Chorus]
You built a church inside my chest
Then burned it down and called it rest
I keep on praying into smoke
Into smoke
Into smoke
If I am just a place you left
Carved your name and then forget
Why does every echo say
You’re not okay
I’m not okay

[Outro]
Ash on my tongue
Your shadow in my breath
I stand in the ruins
And call it blessed (oh)