Criminally Liable

Lyrics

Intro
I wake in the wire
Cold in the seams
Something in me smiles
At the worst of things

Verse 1
I got a tongue made of hinges
A grin full of locks
Talk too long, it start clicking
Tick-tock, tick-tock
I don't bleed like you bleed
I leak through the floor
Every thought in my skull
Keeps asking for more
Hands like paperwork
Stamped and unkind
I left my name in the static
Right where they hide

Pre-Chorus
Hear that? Soft steps
Down the hall in my head
Little black threads
Pull the fear from the edge
Say my name slow
Let it crawl on your teeth
I'm already in it
I'm already beneath

Chorus
I'm criminally liable
(I'm criminally liable)
Hands on the Bible
Then I vanish and smile
I'm criminally liable
(I'm criminally liable)
You can hear me arrive
When the room goes still

Verse 2
I got a dead little engine
Beneath my ribs
It hums when I'm angry
It loves what it did
Mirror got fogged
With a face I can't trust
It keeps saying, "keep going"
Like it knows what I've become
I don't need a key
I walk through the crack
If you close every door
I still come back
Pale as a receipt
Stained with the night
I make clean things ugly
Then call it life

Pre-Chorus
Hear that? Soft steps
Down the hall in my head
Little black threads
Pull the fear from the edge
Say my name slow
Let it crawl on your teeth
I'm already in it
I'm already beneath

Chorus
I'm criminally liable
(I'm criminally liable)
Hands on the Bible
Then I vanish and smile
I'm criminally liable
(I'm criminally liable)
You can hear me arrive
When the room goes still

Verse 3
Now the walls know my rhythm
The floor knows my weight
Every lock in the building
Starts learning my face
I was built from the static
From the bruised-up glow
From the part of the storm
That nobody knows
If I tell you the truth
It'll crawl out wrong
So I fed it the night
And I made it a song
No mercy in the machine
No prayer in the chrome
Just a pulse in the dark
Calling me home

Bridge
Sparse Breakdown
Look at me
Tell me what you see
A saint in a mask
Or a wound with a key
I bend, I break
I don't ask, I take
If I say "I'm sorry"
It's a sound I fake

Chorus
I'm criminally liable
(I'm criminally liable)
Hands on the Bible
Then I vanish and smile
I'm criminally liable
(I'm criminally liable)
You can hear me arrive
When the room goes still

Breakdown
Liable
Liable
No fingerprints
No alibi
Liable
Liable
Blackout eyes
And a silver tongue
Liable
Liable
Say it again
Till the ceiling comes down

Outro
I wake in the wire
Cold in the seams
Something in me smiles
At the worst of things
I'm criminally liable
(I'm criminally liable)