High Rise

Lyrics

Intro
I live where the vents breathe names
Steel in the walls, it knows my face
Up in the High Rise
Up in the High Rise

Verse 1
Glass in the lobby got my silhouette split
Finger on the badge and the light don’t sit
Every door talk back with a dead-screen glow
Every step too clean, every hallway slow
I can hear the floorboards count my faults
Hear the pipes in the dark make robot thoughts
I was born on the edge of a warning sign
Now the mirror says mine when I cross that line
Tenants stare but they don’t blink right
Man made rooms but the rooms got a mind
I don’t sleep, I just sink through levels
Blackcoat lungs and a grin like bevels
If you call my name, don’t call it twice
Something else answers in the High Rise

Pre-Chorus
Hush now
It’s under the skin
Hush now
Let it all begin
Higher
I don’t feel my hands
Hush now
Do you understand?

Chorus
High Rise, High Rise
I’m not all here tonight
High Rise, High Rise
Something else owns this life
High Rise, High Rise
Hear that hollow reply
High Rise, High Rise
We go up, then we die

Verse 2
Elevator teeth chew the midnight air
Buttons light up like they’re asking where
I pressed twelve and the cabin laughed
Saw my old self in the mirrored glass
He had my mouth but a stranger’s stare
Had my pulse in a metal snare
Said “You came back” with a cracked-out grin
Then the doors shut slow and the dark rushed in
I seen shadows move with a human shape
No feet on the floor, just a wireframe drape
Every camera twitch when I pass below
Like the building feeds on the things I know
I keep calm but my jaw keeps clenching
Neck go stiff when the walls start bending
There’s a cold little choir in the ceiling tiles
Singing my secrets in machine-file files

Pre-Chorus
Hush now
It’s under the skin
Hush now
Let it all begin
Higher
I don’t feel my hands
Hush now
Do you understand?

Chorus
High Rise, High Rise
I’m not all here tonight
High Rise, High Rise
Something else owns this life
High Rise, High Rise
Hear that hollow reply
High Rise, High Rise
We go up, then we die

Verse 3
Top floor, no moon, just a bruised-up pane
My name on the lease and the blood in the drain
I been split in two by a locked-down thought
One part sold, one part uncaught
Heard a knock from inside the wall
Three quick taps then the whole place stalled
I saw my shadow move one beat ahead
Saw my future crouch at the foot of the bed
It wore my coat, had my eyes all wrong
Sang my past in a monotone song
Said “This tower keeps what you feed”
So I fed it fear and it planted seed
Now the halls go soft when I say go
Now the lights go red when I say no
If I fall from here, I won’t fall alone
This whole damn building wants a soul

Bridge
Say it back
Say my name
Say it back
But it sounds the same
Breathe in
Let the metal in
Breathe out
Let the real one thin

Breakdown
High
Rise
Open
Wide
Inside
I
Divide
I
Hide
I
Rise

Chorus
High Rise, High Rise
I’m not all here tonight
High Rise, High Rise
Something else owns this life
High Rise, High Rise
Hear that hollow reply
High Rise, High Rise
We go up, then we die

Outro
Glass in the lobby got my silhouette split
Finger on the badge and the light don’t sit
Up in the High Rise
Up in the High Rise