[Verse 1: Garrett Russell]
I awoke in the summer
The sun struck the earth to furnish us with fire [1]
But jealous hands fashioned their cross to a sword [2]
Brandished their gift as a torch to burn the light [3]
"To the dead, we owe only the truth" [4]
The human condition [5]
Surveying the space between the nave [6], I saw my own infernal grave
Existential imperfections [7]
We sat scrawling out prayers on scratched oak chairs
Bullets bouncing off stonewall saints, laid to rest by our Forebear [8]
At their children, at the dissidence of despair
This proximal milieu [9] could close the door to the
Closeness that keeps us inside the spaces that we hide
My heart burns cold as life, leaves my daughter's eyes
I am the mother of the dying, the dust, the denouement [10]

[Pre-Chorus: Garrett Russell]
How can absence take my father's house?
How can nothing take my daughter's life? [11]

[Chorus: Garrett Russell & Thomas Freckleton]
Walk me out from this tomb
If you are the gate, [12] could you make a way?
Come down from that cross
Hold out your hands so I can see [13]
[Bridge: Natalie Nicoles]
Je suis sorti vivant du four crématoire
Je suis le témoin sacré de l'église
Je suis une mère qui a tout perdu [14]

[Outro: Garrett Russell]
This fire burns your name on my lips
And this smoke chokes your song on my throat
Now let death lynch my lungs
I offer what's left of this withering tongue
But oh, "No Exit [15]"
So bright as the light that shines behind the Son
I leaped through stained glass saints
To fall to the garden where we first began [16]