The Coil

You raise the snake, you call it cure

Same mouth, same bite, holiness impure

Drink it, pray it, fear it, wear it

faith loves a scar if it can bear it

Coil of mercy, coil of blame

I lick the healing and the shame

Venom sings, the body bends

Your poison, my amen.

You carve your god in venom's shape

Then beg the scale to keep you safe

You kiss the hiss, you praise the pain

Bronze inside you, again, again

Coil of mercy, coil of blame

I kiss the healing and the shame

Venom sings, the body bends

Your poison, my amen

The idol is a crutch

The worshipper a lamb

You open the wound too much

Poison drips clean from God's hands

Coil

Coil

It never lets go