Mouth Full of Nails

Lyrics

Verse 1
I come in slow
Like trouble in a suit
Boots on the step
And a grin with a bruise

My eyes stay cold
My mouth stay mean
Bay on my tongue
Like gasoline

You hear that crawl?
That’s me in the hall
Same old hunger
I don’t need much at all

I talk in spikes
Then I talk in silk
One minute stone
Next minute tilt

I’m that bad omen
At your screen door
You can’t ignore it
When it wants more

Pre-Chorus
Hold your breath now
Count to ten
That low sound crawling
Back again

You feel that shake
Under your skin
When I come around
It starts within

Chorus
Cold face, deep bass
Cold face, deep bass
I move like smoke
Then I take that space

Cold face, deep bass
Cold face, deep bass
You hear me coming
Too late to place

Verse 2
I got that stare
Like a locked-up gate
I don’t rush truth
I let it wait

Snap of the jaw
Then a velvet laugh
I split my voice
Down the center half

One hand on calm
One hand on chaos
I make a room feel
Like it knows us

Dust on the floor
And fear in the walls
Every little shadow
Starts to crawl

I’m the loud one
When the lights go thin
The kind of mean
That smiles with the grin

Pre-Chorus
Hold your breath now
Count to ten
That low sound crawling
Back again

You feel that shake
Under your skin
When I come around
It starts within

Chorus
Cold face, deep bass
Cold face, deep bass
I move like smoke
Then I take that space

Cold face, deep bass
Cold face, deep bass
You hear me coming
Too late to place

Bridge
Half-time breakdown
Talk real neat
Then I crack that tone
From a graveyard calm
To a cobra’s throw

I don’t chase
I let it find
That creeping fear
Gets real aligned

Chorus
Cold face, deep bass
Cold face, deep bass
I move like smoke
Then I take that space

Cold face, deep bass
Cold face, deep bass
You hear me coming
Too late to place