Vices Like Vipers Lyrics - Singles - Oh, Sleeper

Your scarlet soaked and bold 

And the sheep's eyes locked to mine, sink to my bones 

Though your lips still drip, intentions, they keep me wanting more 

It's rising against all the walls we built for falling 

All the walls we built just stand in vain to draw You near 

It's the wool to hide the wolves and under these toes 

From where we last spoke, Your words laid so firm 

But I did not shed that skin like You said 

When the mason neglects the mortar 

Looks become deceiving 

And when the bricks start to fall 

I'll be the one crawling down this road so dark 

Vices like vipers, speak in whispers 

My heel's the meat to sink their teeth 

Like the viper I kept when You said, "Let go" 

This is what it took for me to see 

When I am God, this church is unsound 

Slithering in the shade of a sinking church 

Surprise is no excuse for the traps that You left in the wake of warning 

So this is the warning, you fall to learn and to the girls 

You're worth more than the cheap words 

You see your body as beauty but your pulse is worth more 

Hear me, it's not what it seems, though the feeding tastes of honesty 

This is the warning, you're just a hit to coax my urgency 

Why do we keep what holds us? 

Why do I keep what holds me down? 

Lose the weight of defeat 

It's time to stand your ground 

Vices like vipers, speak in whispers 

My heel's the meat to sink their teeth like the viper 

I kept when you said, "Let go" 

Since all the alibis of ignorance are void 

This, my lust, the pornos and the sluts 

Take my lust, this world's love 

Great Councilor, take what's left 

Great Councilor, take what's left of me