[Verse]

The looking glass reflects a jagged edge

Where marble statues bleed upon the floor

I chased a silhouette across the ledge

And found a keyhole in a shifting door

Gravity is just a pale suggestion now

The ceiling drips with liquid amber light

I made a silent and a heavy vow

To walk the fever corridors of night

[Chorus]

But every shadow wears a hungry face

The velvet curtains hide a sharpened blade

A poisoned welcome in this hollow place

Where every debt of malice must be paid

The kaleidoscope is spinning out of sync

The honeyed water turns to bitter ink

[Bridge]

They say the mind is a sanctuary hall

But mine is built of mirrors and of thorns

I hear the thunder of a kingdom's fall

Above the blowing of the copper horns

Steel meets the spirit in a silent fray

While clocks dissolve into a pool of grey

[Verse]

A knight of feathers stands upon the hill

His eyes are emeralds burning through the haze

The clockwork birds are frozen and are still

Within the labyrinth of a thousand maze

I feel the coldness of a phantom breath

A spider web across the morning sun

A game of riddles played with ancient death

Before the waking hour has begun

[Pre-Chorus]

The air is thick with old and nameless fears

The ground is soft as unremembered years

I see the cracks begin to split the sky

As all the painted giants start to cry

[Chorus]

But every shadow wears a hungry face

The velvet curtains hide a sharpened blade

A poisoned welcome in this hollow place

Where every debt of malice must be paid

The kaleidoscope is spinning out of sync

The honeyed water turns to bitter ink

[Chorus]

But every shadow wears a hungry face

The velvet curtains hide a sharpened blade

A poisoned welcome in this hollow place

Where every debt of malice must be paid

The kaleidoscope is spinning out of sync

The honeyed water turns to bitter ink

[Outro]