Alchemilla
About this track
A love letter to Silent Hill Lyrics "Fear of the blood tends to create fear of the flesh." I stepped beyond the last pale lantern With the fog against my throat Carrying salt in one closed hand And ashes in my coat The road became a crooked vessel Sealed in glass and breathing slow Every turn refined the darkness Every door refused to know Up came water through the floorboards Black and patient, cold and wide Filling up the rooms behind me Lapping softly at my side I saw my face beneath the surface But it would not answer back Stared out like a mirror Then pulled me through the black Shadows at the edge of me Shadows in the rain Following like hungry fog Down every narrow lane I run until the night is molten I run until I’m stone But the maze keeps changing shape And I am still alone I split my name from what it carried Left the wound and kept the skin Tore the gold out from the sulfur Locked the animal within But the blade that makes a border Cannot keep the dark apart What I cut away came crawling Back toward the beating heart Now the dreaming walks beside me Now the buried learn to speak All the doors inside are opening All the floors beneath me creak Hand in hand with my own shadow Mouth to mouth with what I fear I become the thing that followed I become the thing drawn near Shadows at the edge of me Shadows in the rain Following like hungry fog Down every narrow lane I run until the night is molten I run until I’m stone But the maze keeps changing shape And I am still alone Sweet rot blooms behind the wallpaper A carpet of green across the dead Every secret splits and flowers Every holy thing turns red Then comes fire in the rafters Then comes flame beneath the stair Burning clean the false confession Burning mercy from the air I came to make the broken golden I came to change the led But all the light I begged from heaven Crowns the terror in my head Shadows at the edge of me Shadows at my side The fog has learned the secret names Of everything I hide I sought a stone to save me A light no dark could claim But every spark I kindled Rose up wearing my name Blood in the mortar Soul in the stone Heaven above me Locked and unknown One more step Through fog alone Do I escape Or do I turn to stone