GUARDIAN — TAKE ME FIRST (Official Lyric Video)

He gave the darkness his name, his innocence, his voice. It never took her. TAKE ME FIRST is a song about protection that costs everything: a guardian who stands between the dark and the one thing still real to him, while slowly becoming the monster she needs protecting from. Watch. Wait. Burn heaven if he must. [LYRICS] I watch I wait She came to me with velvet hands Asked for my name, and I gave it Then my innocence, then my mouth Now I only speak in the dark Everything she took was hunger Everything she left was you You, only you, the last thing real Salt on a tongue that forgot the taste I don't speak, I never needed to I stand where the shadows kneel If it wants you, it must pass through me And there's less of me each time I am the Guardian, I am the grave I keep you breathing and I wear the chains Call me the monster, call me the flame I might burn heaven to keep you safe Something old is stirring in my ribs It knows your name better than I do Every wall I raise to shield you Is built from the man I used to be Teeth behind my gentle hands A crown of thorns that grows inward I feel it sweet when I bleed for you God help me, I'm starting to like it Take me first Take me first Peel the skin, feed on the bone Hollow me out and wear what's left Not her Not her I was seduced, and I stayed Now I tell, whose mouth I can't tell Whose mouth is speaking If the monster ever wears my face If I reach for you with hands not mine Don't say my name, I won't be there Run I am the Guardian, I am the grave I keep you breathing and I wear the chains And if the darkness ever comes for you It will have to take me first You I watch I wait I wait Lyrics, production and visuals by [GUARDIAN] Released via Guardian Records © 2026 Guardian Records. All rights reserved. #DarkRomance #DarkAmbient #DarkAlternative #Guardian #TakeMeFirst #GothicMetal #monsterromance #darkacademia #gothicaesthetic #darkmusic #newmusic