Schizophrenic Schism

Lyrics

Intro
Count the seams
Count the cracks
Something lives behind the glass
(behind the glass)
Cold red blink
Metal breath
It remembers every step

Verse 1
I wear your face like borrowed skin
Tap-tap-tap in the vent again
Loose screws hum in the hallway wall
I hear my name in the crawlspace crawl
A smile stitched with the power off
Teeth like keys when the shadows lock
Hands in the dark, but they never warm
They keep on knocking in the storm
(keep on knocking)
I see the room split clean in two
One part me and one part you
And both of them are telling lies
With static hiding in their eyes

Pre-Chorus
Hold still
Don’t blink
It’s opening
Under your skin
Slow burn
Cold wire
Something is waking
Inside the wire

Chorus
Schizophrenic schism
Split me open
Schizophrenic schism
Pull me broken
Schizophrenic schism
Say my name
Say my name
Schizophrenic schism
Nothing stays the same
(nothing stays the same)

Verse 2
There’s a laugh in the drainage pipe
A little too sharp, a little too light
The walls lean in when the clock gets low
They spell my fear in a flicker glow
I tried to run, but the floor held fast
Like a fist made out of broken glass
Every door had the same dead grin
Every key turned and let them in
(let them in)
Now the house wears my breathing bad
And the mirror learned what the bloodline had
One cold mouth, then a second mouth
Both of them know what I'm about

Pre-Chorus
Hold still
Don’t fight
It’s crawling up
Through the light
Slow burn
Black wire
Something is feeding
On desire

Chorus
Schizophrenic schism
Split me open
Schizophrenic schism
Pull me broken
Schizophrenic schism
Say my name
Say my name
Schizophrenic schism
Nothing stays the same
(nothing stays the same)

Verse 3
I found a tape in the dead air buzz
Played it back and it sounded like us
But the voice was bent, and the words were raw
Like a machine with a broken jaw
It said, "You built this room with fear"
Then it laughed like nails in my ear
Now the pulse in the pipes gets loud
When I step too close to the crowd
I see a face in the furnace glow
It wears my shame like a holy coat
And when I scream, it screams in time
Like my own blood learned a different rhyme

Bridge
Cut the feed
Cut the tongue
Cut the circuit
One by one
Breakdown
Knuckles drag
Steel bends low
Split the signal
Let it go
I am the fault
I am the seam
I am the broken in between
(in between)
Error voice
Blackened prayer
Two of me
Still living there

Chorus
Schizophrenic schism
Split me open
Schizophrenic schism
Pull me broken
Schizophrenic schism
Say my name
Say my name
Schizophrenic schism
Nothing stays the same
(nothing stays the same)

Outro
Count the seams
Count the cracks
Something lives behind the glass
(behind the glass)
Cold red blink
Metal breath
It remembers every step
Step
Step