Bookaria - Take Away My Veil

If the night is woven from wings
If the old cathedral still breathes
You will find me
Where a pale moth never sleeps
If false gods still wait below
If the sacred waters call
Lift your veil
Look at me
Don't fear the fall
They taught me how to drown in silence
How to dream another's fate
Blackened waters kept their secrets
Long before the gods were made
I believed in steel and battle
Not in saints or whispered prayers
Only iron spoke in truth to me
Everything else vanished into air
Silken ribbons crossed my vision
The water whispered through my veins
Every prophecy
I carried
Left another ghost in chains
Then
I found you in the twilight
Where the crimson windows burned
And your silence broke the fortress
Every sword had never turned
Take away my veil
I'm no longer scared to see
Even if your eyes have changed
They're still the eyes that rescued me
If the black tide steals my name
Leaves no light for me to keep
I will call you back to life
Before the moth forgets to dream
We're not the promise of their throne
We're not the prayers carved in stone
We're blood, we're breath, we're wings set free
You are my my fate and
I am your king and
I am your king
You're not to seek reflection
I couldn't feel
But your voice became my chapel
Your hands became my steel
Still the spring beneath the altar
Call me softly through the stone
Not to life that lasts forever
But to darkness of my own
In the hush before the breaking
I saw all my doubts undone
Not by gods above the water
But by you beneath the sun
Five stone faces watched us kneeling
Five false saints above the flood
Coined in
Quell or in
Bel bail
The loom that fed on blood
You were never made for servant
Never born to bow or bend
I will carve the truth from marble
I will guard you till the end
If the temple calls our names
We won't answer, we won't fall
Let the relics crack like thunder
Let the old gods lose it all
Who crowned them divine
Those afraid of them all
Who gave them the right
To drink from our blood
If the dream demands our living
Let the ancient temple die
Take my helmet, take my helmet
We will break it, you and i
Take away my veil
Let the stained glass heavens bleed
Even if my eyes have changed
I am not the same they need
If the black tide fills my lungs
If the dark begins to rise
I will choose your voice again
I will choose your own, your fight
Take away my veil
For the final moth takes flight
We're not the sacrifice they own
We're not the prayers carved in stone
We're blood
We're breath
We're wings set free
You are my faith and
I am your king and
I am your king
We're not the silence they have sown
We're not the silence they have sown
We're not the ghosts beneath the throne
We're heart, we're flame, we're not their dream
You are my truth and
I will see