Collared

[00:00.00] Y’know, as a kid on Sunday

[00:01.22] I’d go to church

[00:02.27] And say my daily prayers

[00:03.34] It’s such a blur

[00:04.14] Repeating:

[00:04.67] “Padre nuestro en el cielo (???

[00:05.99] Santifica-”

[00:07.34] Um, how did it go?

[00:08.13] And so the Padre’s talkin’, he’s doin’ his thing

[00:10.00] He takes a breath, looks up and, starin’ at me

[00:12.12] He says, “Holy bunnies, white as snow

[00:13.98] Will you promise not to ever roam?”

[00:32.31] I don’t know all when these feelings all began

[00:34.17] It seems the devil and I walked hand in hand

[00:36.30] And so I’d run and run and run away

[00:38.42] Endless circles through a senseless game

[00:40.28] I would pray for an answer every night

[00:42.13] But the moon stayed silent with it’s damning light

[00:44.26] And so I’d run and run and run away

[00:46.38] Feigning solace through a holy fate

[00:48.24] Now, the echos interlace

[00:50.10] Repeating sacred grace to save the misbehaved

[00:52.23] A picture perfect masquerade

[00:54.36] Embracing faded pages of tainted saints

[00:56.72] “Mijito, Dios te quiere”

[00:58.34] “Él solo quiere protegerte”

[01:00.43] A saying I’ve heard before, adorning covenants;

[01:03.58] Dear God, I’m bored

[01:04.41] We’ve lost our youth to the night

[01:08.96] Left to find reason between every fracture of light

[01:14.24] In portraits portraying our lives

[01:17.16] Can we redefine what it means to be alive?

[01:21.68] If the scripture says its sin

[01:24.33] Then let's begin a dying wish

[01:26.19] Although our cards were dealt in blinded bliss

[01:28.32] There’s hope beyond this lone abyss

[01:30.44] Leave bruises on my neck

[01:31.78] We won’t regret

[01:32.56] Our staggered breaths

[01:34.16] I wanna feel your body close

[01:35.23] But there’s something latching to my throat

[01:38.44] It's got me co- co- co- co-

[01:40.31] What!?

[01:41.90] It's got me co- co- co- co-

[01:44.29] What!?

[01:45.62] Collared

[01:50.40] Cheap wine, cheaper praise

[01:52.53] Cheap ways to fill my faith

[01:54.66] I got a hundred ways to null the pain

[01:56.25] Every day the same, still trying to pray, like

[01:58.10] “Oye, wey, ¿estás allí?

[02:00.23] En el cielo tan bello

[02:01.55] Find it hard to believe

[02:02.35] Hey, did you

[02:02.90] Run, and run, and run

[02:03.43] To shun the only one

[02:04.76] Who could have saved us from humanity’s sun?

[02:08.64] We’ve lost our youth to the night

[02:13.25] Left to find reason between every fracture of light

[02:18.18] In portraits portraying our lives

[02:21.10] Can we redefine what it means to be alive?

[02:26.26] Life isn’t up to a God

[02:29.18] Our components are sonnets

[02:31.04] They’re up to us to write

[02:34.50] Our memories live on through each line

[02:36.88] Can we redefine what they mean if

[02:40.87] Scripture says its sin

[02:41.89] Then let's begin a dying wish

[02:43.76] Although our cards were dealt in blinded bliss

[02:46.12] There’s hope beyond this lone abyss

[02:48.24] Leave bruises on my neck

[02:49.03] We won’t regret

[02:50.63] Our staggered breaths

[02:51.95] I wanna feel your body close

[02:53.28] But there’s something latching to my throat

[02:57.53] I wanna worship you all night

[03:01.79] I wanna feel your gentle bite

[03:05.77] And if the world wants us to burn

[03:10.02] We’ll join the stars and watch it turn

[03:28.35] I could throw it all away

[03:29.95] Repeat the prayers I used to pray

[03:32.06] But if I hid behind this broken bliss

[03:34.20] I’ll never know what lies within

[03:36.32] Those markings on my neck

[03:37.91] I don’t regret the nights we spent

[03:40.30] I wanna feel your body close

[03:41.36] But there’s something latching to my throat

[03:44.01] The scripture says its sin

[03:45.88] Then let's begin this sinner’s wish

[03:48.26] Although our cards were dealt in binded bliss

[03:50.39] Let’s recreate the serpent's kiss

[03:52.52] Leave bruises on my neck

[03:53.85] I won’t repent

[03:55.18] My knees are bent

[03:56.24] I wanna hold your body close

[03:57.83] Just wrap your hands around my throat

[04:00.22] They had me co- co- co- co-

[04:02.34] What!?

[04:03.68] But now I’m co- co- co- co-

[04:06.33] What!?

[04:07.66] Pull on my co- co- co- co-

[04:10.31] What!?

[04:11.91] Collar