Dark Oasis

[Verse 1]
Cheap gold
Green room carpet stained
You sign
Another crooked name
Backstage
You’re preaching about pain
But your hands
They never touch the flame

[Pre-Chorus]
I used to hang on every line (every line)
You used my hunger like a knife
You keep the throne
I’ll keep my life

[Chorus]
Take your crumbling crown
I’m walking out now
I’m not your chorus in the crowd
You built your kingdom
On our backs somehow
Watch it fall
Watch it fall
Crumbling crown

[Verse 2]
Same script
Same old counterfeit smile
You twist
Every favor into trial
You say
I should be grateful for the bruise
Funny
How you always get to choose

[Pre-Chorus]
You drew a halo in my head (in my head)
Then pulled it tight around my throat
You preach devotion
I revoke

[Chorus]
Take your crumbling crown
I’m walking out now
I’m not your chorus in the crowd
You built your kingdom
On our backs somehow
Watch it fall
Watch it fall
Crumbling crown

[Bridge]
[Organ swells
Sax answers in short
Jagged bursts]
You said I’d sink if I let go
Still I’m breathing
Don’t you know
You said I’d break out on my own
Hear that?
That’s my backbone

Two roads
Same door
This time
I won’t crawl

[Chorus]
Take your crumbling crown
I’m walking out now
I’m not your chorus in the crowd
You built your kingdom
On our backs somehow
Watch it fall
Watch it fall
Crumbling crown

[Outro]
[Band drops to half-time
Bass runs wild under held vocal]
Crumbling crown
Crumbling now (hey)
I wear the scars
You wear the doubt
Crumbling crown
I’m walking out