Breathe it in, the saint you built is cracked
Your mercy tastes like smoke and wax
I wore your calm until it screamed
I sold my hurt to your machine

I watched you shine while I decayed
You called it healing, I called it faith
Your whispers drip with gasoline
I light them just to feel unclean

You said I'm fragile, I said I'm flame
You blessed my scars, then used my name

Velvet teeth, grinding slow
Every bite I used to know
Plastic prayers across my skin
Bleed me holy, burn me in

You like the silence, don't you?
You like when I choke on devotion
You said the pain was pretty
Now watch me wear it proud

Your grace is a costume I outgrew
Your heaven can't fit what I've been through
Every sorry cuts too deep
And every truth you sold, I keep

Velvet teeth, velvet sin
Tear the voice beneath my skin
Velvet teeth, velvet sin
I'm not yours to save again

I'm the wound you prayed to heal
And I still taste like rust