Poison You Asked For

Poison You Asked For

Salt the door. Don't knock

I don't pray, I don't plead I keep bones where you keep beliefs I watched the living crawl for crumbs And I did not look away

Call me cruel, I'll wear the word Like a ring of black on the finger You wanted kind, you wanted warm I was never built for either

Candle low, voice lower Every door I closed, I closed it slower

I am the poison you asked for I am the ash on your good name Life and death are both beneath me Kneel or burn, it's all the same

Your saints were cowards dressed in light Mine at least admit the knife I drink the venom, bite the hand Then smile and do it twice

No mercy in a winter field No sorry in the snake I tell the truth the way it cuts And I don't care what breaks

But at night the mirror asks Who taught you how to bite Who left you in the frost so long You mistook it for the light

I am the poison you asked for I am the ash on your good name Life and death are both beneath me Kneel or burn, it's all the same

I am not sorry I am just awake