[Verse 1]

Got a promise to keep now of my own

Gonna walk through the fire and come back home

Treading through the damnation of our kind

'Cause Heaven's got a locked door I can't find

[Chorus]

I can't preach to the darkness

Without putting up a fight

And I don't expect a savior

So I've got to be the light

I can't climb Jacob's ladder

Keep on landing on the ground

But Hell has an elevator

So just send my body down

[Post-Chorus]

(Down, down, down)

(Down, down, down, down)

(Down, down, down, down)

(Down, down, down, down)

[Verse 2]

Thinking back to the bloodshed on my trail

The damage

Tried to stick to the scripture, but I have failed

Abandoned

Breaking bread with the sinners to survive

Altogether

'Cause Heaven's got a locked door I can't find

Shut forever

[Chorus]

I can't preach to the darkness

Without putting up a fight

And I don't expect a savior

So I've got to be the light

I can't climb Jacob's ladder

Keep on landing on the ground

But Hell has an elevator

So just send my body down

[Post-Chorus]

(Down, down, down)

(Down, down, down, down)

(Down, down, down, down)

(Down, down, down, down)

[Bridge]

Going to choke on the sulfur I taste on my lips

Seeing stars in the dark here beneath an eclipse

Hard to wait for an answer when my belief slips

There's something else here listening

For the path I have walked comes a dangerous price

I have searched for the truth with my own doubting eyes

Can I live with the knowing when I realize

Lucifer's star is twinkling?

My mind is scouring secrets

Not any soul will tell

Sometimes, to face the demons

You have to walk through Hell

[Chorus]

I can't preach to the darkness

Without putting up a fight

And I don't expect a savior

So I've got to be the light

I can't climb Jacob's ladder

Keep on landing on the ground

But Hell has an elevator

So just send my body down

[Outro]

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