Flesh Remembers the Sin by Obituary Pending
Flesh Remembers the Sin
[Verse 1]
The mirror cracks beneath my eyes,
Veins like rivers of darkened lies.
A whisper curls beneath my skin,
It knows the weight I hold within.
Bones remember the nights I fled,
The silent screams of words unsaid.
Each scar, a verse, each cut, a hymn,
Flesh remembers the sin.
[Chorus]
Oh, the marrow moans, the muscles weep,
Punishment is slow, and it burrows deep.
Every heartbeat echoes, a drum of shame,
Flesh remembers, it calls my name.
[Verse 2]
I run my hands along the trace,
Of every fault I can’t erase.
Muscles twitch with a memory raw,
A jury of sinew, holding the law.
The skin convulses at whispered blame,
A covenant carved in heat and flame.
No confession can cleanse or thin,
The stain that lives beneath the skin.
[Chorus]
Oh, the marrow moans, the muscles weep,
Punishment is slow, and it burrows deep.
Every heartbeat echoes, a drum of shame,
Flesh remembers, it calls my name.
[Bridge]
Tendons scream in the dead of night,
Every shadow’s a judge, every shadow’s a bite.
I press my palms to the searing truth,
The body’s a ledger, my sins uncouth.
The eyes rot slow in sockets hollow,
Each blink a sentence I cannot swallow.
A cathedral of cartilage, hollow and thin,
Flesh remembers the sin.
[Verse 3]
Bones twist beneath a guilty hand,
Each pulse a verdict I can’t withstand.
The ribs, a cage for a writhing shame,
Muscles coil, chanting my name.
I taste the rust of my own regret,
No absolution, no solace met.
The blood recites the tales I spin,
Flesh remembers the sin.
[Chorus]
Oh, the marrow moans, the muscles weep,
Punishment is slow, and it burrows deep.
Every heartbeat echoes, a drum of shame,
Flesh remembers, it calls my name.
[Outro]
And when I sleep, the sinews cry,
A requiem beneath the skin I hide.
The body knows what the mind can’t pin,
Flesh remembers, always, the sin.