[Intro]
The booth was waiting
Black wood and dust
No priest behind it
No voice but us

[Verse 1]
I found it near the southern wall
Where velvet rotted through
A narrow door, a brass-worn cross
A kneeler split in two
The screen was dark with oldened breath
The seat across was bare
Yet when I pulled the curtain shut
I felt myself sit there

[Verse 2]
No hand came through to bless my head
No Latin eased the room
The little grate became a mouth
Of iron, ash, and gloom
I said your name, then stopped at once
As if the sound could bruise
The silence waited patiently
For words it would not choose

[Pre-Chorus]
I had blamed the distant heavens
I had blamed the winter rain
But no god built the locked room
Where I rehearsed my pain

[Chorus]
Confession without God
Only breath against the screen
No thunder from the altar
No angel in between
Confession without God
No pardon from above
Just the voice I buried under grief
Saying what I did to love

[Verse 3]
I told the booth I missed your hands
I told it I was lost
It answered with my own old tone
And counted up the cost
Not coins, not years, not punishments
Not blood beneath a nail
But every gentle chance I had
To answer and not fail

[Pre-Chorus]
I wanted heaven’s language
To lift the fault from me
But truth is not a foreign tongue
It speaks when we can’t flee

[Chorus]
Confession without God
Only breath against the screen
No thunder from the altar
No angel in between
Confession without God
No pardon from above
Just the voice I buried under grief
Saying what I did to love

[Whispered]
I was afraid
I was tired
I was proud
I was wrong

[Breakdown]
No absolution
No sacred disguise
No veil for the mouth
No cloth for the eyes
No holy escape
No borrowed command
Only the wound
And my own two hands

[Bridge]
Then through the grate I heard you breathe
Or memory wearing sound
You did not say, “You are forgiven”
You said, “Put the burden down”
And I knew forgiveness is not a key
That makes the old door gone
It is learning how to leave the cell
With the chain still drawn

[Build-up]
I speak it plain
I speak it whole
I loved you badly
With a frightened soul

[Final Chorus]
Confession without God
Only breath against the screen
No thunder from the altar
No angel in between
Confession without God
No pardon from above
Just the voice I buried under grief
Saying what I did to love
Confession without God
And still the candles nod
Not because I am clean
But because I can be true

[Outro]
The booth was empty
The curtain stirred
No priest had answered
But I had heard