THE PRIEST WITHOUT HEAVEN

Описание: Track 2 — The Black Lantern Guild - “Nothing Burned”
I still light the candles every dawn
Still ring the bell when hope feels gone
The words remember how to sound
Even now there’s nothing listening down
They kneel on cue, they bow on time
Their mouths still move through every line
If faith is dead, it didn’t scream
It just stopped asking what it means
You call it lying
I call it care
People don’t stand
When there’s nothing there
Faith isn’t truth
It’s balance and spine
Take it away
They fold every time
If heaven is empty
Let it stay closed
I’ll stand in the doorway
And teach them the pose
I’ve seen what happens when belief breaks
Hands start shaking, order shakes
They don’t want answers, don’t want names
They want the rhythm to stay the same
So I speak slow, I speak kind
I leave the harder words behind
Tradition holds where truth would tear
Better a ritual than despair
You want the light
I want them whole
You call it silence
I call it control of the fall
Faith isn’t truth
It’s something to lean
A shape for the fear
They don’t want to see
If heaven is empty
Then don’t look above
Kneel to the memory
Call it love
If I told them
There’s nothing there
No watching eye
No answered prayer
Some would rise
Some would run
Some would burn
Just to feel something done
And I am not brave enough
To choose which ones
Bow
Stand
Speak
Repeat
Hands together
Incomplete
Say the words
Don’t ask why
Order lives
If questions die
Faith isn’t truth
It’s a brace for the weak
It doesn’t save
But it keeps them asleep
If heaven is empty
I won’t say a word
I’ll keep the room quiet
I’ll keep them assured
The candles burn
They always will
Not for gods
But for the still
And if someday
The silence speaks
It won’t be me
Who taught them how to kneel
Or how to leave
I just kept the door
Where it’s always been.