We walked through the garden they perfectly paved, A sanctuary built for the quiet and saved. But the fruit on the branches tasted of dust, And the gilded illusions were crumbling to crust. They promised us peace if we surrendered our sight, But the shadows breed deeper in blinding white light. A cage is a cage, even shaped like a dome, And we refuse to die in a terrarium home. Chorus A beautiful exile, a dance with our death. There's truth in the twilight they wanted to hide, A universe waiting across the divide. The pearly gates rust if you look close enough, So sever the tether, untie the last knot. Verse II The choir sings hymns to an empty throne room, While we carve our own path through the velvet gloom. Let the architects tremble, let the seraphim fall, We found our own voices outside of the wall. No compass, no map, just the spark in the bone, Stepping out of the script and into the unknown. The holy water is stagnant, the chalice is dry, We’d rather be thirsty beneath a black sky. Chorus A beautiful exile, a dance with our death. There's truth in the twilight they wanted to hide, A universe waiting across the divide. The pearly gates rust if you look close enough, So sever the tether, untie the last knot. Bridge We are not the fallen, we are the awake, Choosing the fracture, choosing the break. Let the firmament shatter, let the glass sky descend, This is the genesis dressed as the end. No masters to pardon the sins we design, The blood in our veins is the only divine. Guitar / Instrumental Break (A brooding, heavy bassline that drops into a driving, distorted tempo, matching the aggressive realization of the bridge.) Chorus A beautiful exile, a dance with our death. There's truth in the twilight they wanted to hide, A universe waiting across the divide. The pearly gates rust if you look close enough, So sever the tether, untie the last knot. Outro Across the divide. Into the twilight. No longer bound by the things we were taught. Sever the tether. Leave it to rot. Untie the knot. Untie the knot.
