[Intro]
You were the Summer
You were the coma
You were the only one

[Verse 1]
It was so quiet
And then you came around
And all the hiss of unknown
Turned lifeless and commonplace

[Chorus 1]
You carrier, you'll never see
What came undone, what you took from me
Can you hear them? Rats in the walls
They remind me together of who we were
I don’t need your help or your hindrance
You stay the fuck away from me
You said, "It's been so long, I'm all alone."
Hear the scratch of the rats in the walls

[Verse 2]
Led me here, said, "Hold my hand."
A young nymph defiled then
My body fights itself inside
I feel it bow, this mortal hold

[Chorus 2]
You carrier, you repulse me
Heard the sound of her knees scrape against the street
You, the dirty one, what you took from me
There was nothing left but hypocrisy
Holy odium, blotted memory
But my regret will never consume me
The ocean's licking tongue, the letting of the blood
Vile prophecy, scrape it out of me


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    "Basically, my great-grandfather was a pedophile and fucked up every woman in my family. I don't always feel that it's my story to tell, because it was an older generation of women who had the worst of it."

    • Chelsea Wolfe in an interview with Revolver.

    "Part of what gives Wolfe her mystique is her intensely private nature. She keeps personal matters close to the vest, although in a recent Revolver interview she opened up about a patriarchal family figure with disturbing sexual predilections who harmed the female side of her family. Thus what she rails about in album closer 'Scrape' clearly comes from an intensely personal place."

    • Taken from an interview off of Billboard Magazine's site.

    So yeah. If it the lyrics weren't clear enough for you, the song is obviously about childhood sexual abuse.

    mobsteroidon February 25, 2018   Link

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