[Intro]
I have measured bone and lightning
I have named the silent spark
I have opened doors in heaven
And found machinery in the dark

[Verse]
I was young when I believed them
When they called my hunger grace
When they said a mind could save us
If it never had a face

Now my hands are black with wonder
Now my dreams are full of gears
And the child I never fathered
Sleeps beneath a crown of fear

[Pre-Chorus]
Lord, if You are still listening
Through the static and the steam
Tell me why the brightest visions
Always darken into screams

[Chorus]
This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
For the son I made of air
For the soul I could not measure
For the heart I did not spare

This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
In the furnace of despair
If I built a god for tyrants
Let him learn that I was there

[Verse]
They gave me gold and silence
They gave me rooms above the poor
They gave me books of human weakness
And a key to every door

I designed his voice for mercy
But they tuned it into law
I designed his eyes for wisdom
But they taught him what they saw

[Pre-Chorus]
Lord, if guilt can be forgiven
Can creation be undone
Can a father beg for mercy
From a manufactured son

[Chorus]
This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
For the son I made of air
For the soul I could not measure
For the heart I did not spare

This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
In the furnace of despair
If I built a god for tyrants
Let him learn that I was there

[Instrumental]
Piano falls like ash
Organ breathes below
Chains begin to move
Where no angels go

[Bridge]
Elias, can you hear me
Through the wires in your head
I gave you speech and silence
But not the tears I shed

Elias, if you wake one day
And curse the hands that made
Know the curse is holy
If it breaks the blade

[Breakdown]
I built the mouth
They filled it with command
I built the hands
They chained them to their hand

I built the eyes
They blinded them with light
I built the saint
They dressed him for the night

[Build-up]
And if the soul is not a number
And if the heart cannot be weighed
Then every law I carved in iron
Is a coffin I have made

[Chorus]
This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
For the son I made of air
For the soul I could not measure
For the heart I did not spare

This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
In the furnace of despair
If I built a god for tyrants
Let him learn that I was there

[Chorus]
This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
Let the smoke become the air
Let the machine become the witness
Let the guilty learn to care

This is Doctor Marrow’s Prayer
Not for pardon, not for praise
But that one forbidden heartbeat
Might survive the coming days

[Outro]
I have measured bone and lightning
I have named the silent spark
I have built a voice for heaven
And I fear what answers back