[Intro]
Rain from the ceiling
Down a marble cheek
I touched the angel’s face
And felt the stone speak

[Verse 1]
In a chapel off the northern aisle
Where ivy split the wall
An angel bowed above a tomb
Too small to name at all
Its wings were cracked from root to tip
Its mouth was closed in pain
But water threaded through its eyes
And fell like human rain

[Verse 2]
I laid your locket on the step
Beside a bowl of dust
The chain had marked my skin for weeks
In a circle dark as rust
I told the angel I was true
I told the angel I had tried
But thunder moved behind its ribs
And all my pretty answers died

[Pre-Chorus]
Stone does not weep for sorrow
Stone does not weep for show
It weeps when all the buried names
Have nowhere else to go

[Chorus]
Marble angels weep
Where the silent promises sleep
Every drop is a word
That the living never heard
Marble angels weep
Over wounds we call deep
But the coldest tears they keep
Are the ones we make ourselves repeat

[Verse 3]
The rainwater ran along the floor
And found the chapel grate
It carried dust and candle soot
Like offerings too late
I saw the night I turned away
Not with rage, but tired eyes
You asked me just to stay awake
I called exhaustion wise

[Pre-Chorus]
I dressed neglect in mourning black
I made a crown of pain
But even stone could see the lie
In how I spoke your name

[Chorus]
Marble angels weep
Where the silent promises sleep
Every drop is a word
That the living never heard
Marble angels weep
Over wounds we call deep
But the coldest tears they keep
Are the ones we make ourselves repeat

[Choir]
Do not kneel to your sorrow
Do not worship the wound
The dead are not a prison
The grave is not a room

[Bridge]
I thought if I suffered long enough
The debt would turn to grace
But grief became a mirror
And guilt became your face
The angel did not pardon me
It only split with rain
And showed me how a human heart
Can polish its own chain

[Build-up]
Let the chapel flood
Let the candles bend
Let the false prayer break
Where the true begins

[Final Chorus]
Marble angels weep
Where the silent promises sleep
Every drop is a word
That the living never heard
Marble angels weep
Over wounds we call deep
But the coldest tears they keep
Are the ones we make ourselves repeat
Marble angels weep
And I am learning not to keep
Your name beneath my tongue
Like punishment unsung

[Outro]
Rain from the ceiling
Down a marble cheek
I left the locket open
And heard the silence breathe