From the debut album from Coma
THE COMA is a side project from Tommy Gardner and Johnny Gardner, who both are members of the Los Angeles based band Machines of agony.
Lyrics
Intro
City hums like a taught wire
Neon Judas smiling in the gutters
Verse 1
Paper flags on rusted poles, promises in gold leaf
They trade our names for weightless prayers and empty teeth
Footsteps hollow out the alleys, warm mouths bite the cold
We carry ledgers in our bones, the numbers stealing home
Pre-Chorus
Soft as silk, they speak of mercy
Soft as silk, while the markets bury
Chorus
Neon Judas, sing me down
Lullaby of glass and rust, give me the crown
You fucking sell the sunrise for a dollar and a lie
Neon Judas, watch your people dry
Verse 2
Television saints with polished mouths, they sell us air to breathe
Breadlines like a ritual, somebody else decides to leave
Children learn to measure hunger by the glow of someones screen
We fold our bones into the bed and call it holy, call it clean
Pre-Chorus
Whispered orders, velvet hum
The city sways, the vultures come
Chorus
Neon Judas, sing me down
Lullaby of glass and rust, give me the crown
You fucking pawn the ocean for a seam of dirty light
Neon Judas, watch us fade into the night
Bridge
Tie the flag around your neck a necklace made of thorns
They clap for saints in suits while the river keeps their forms
I taste the static on my tongue, the smoke of closed doors
You harvest quiet like a crop and sell it back for more
Breakdown
We scream beneath the neon, mouths full of rust and prayers
Our hands hold ghosts of harvests they refuse to share
Soft the sirens learn our names
Loud the city steals our veins
Chorus
Neon Judas, sing me down
Lullaby of glass and rust, give me the crown
You fucking burn the gardens for a billboard in the sky
Neon Judas, we burn with you tonight
Outro
Neon Judas, neon Judas
Keep your light it only shows where we are bruised
Neon Judas, keep your crown
Well gather whats left out from under the sound
