Bolt-Eaten Psalm

Lyrics

Intro
Something moved behind my teeth
Not me
Not me
The room remembers my name
And calls it back wrong

Verse 1
I wake up under a metal skin
Cold seams sewn through my ribs
My shadow lags half a step behind
Like it got dragged through the ditch
I hear the lock click twice in my skull
A hand turns slow in the dark
Every thought comes pre-bent, pre-broken
Like a nail through a circuit board

You smile with my mouth
You blink with my eyes
I taste old copper
And rotten rain inside
My hands don't shake
They obey
I say, "let me out"
But it answers, "stay"

Breakdown
Hush
I can hear it
Inside the walls
Inside the wires
Hush
It learned my voice
Now it speaks
When I bite

Verse 2
There’s a drum in the pipework
Pounding my bones to dust
Little machine prayers
Grinding to rust
I try to pray with a clean tongue
It turns to static and ash
The mirror feeds me a stranger
With a grin full of shattered glass

I feel the gears in my lungs
They spin when I cry
I pull at the seams
But the seams hold tight
Something is driving this frame
Like a knife in a wooden saint
If I close my eyes too long
It paints my face in hate

Breakdown
Break it
Break it
Break the shell
Let the thing in me
Rot and swell
Break it
Break it
Hear it scream
That ain't blood
That ain't me

Verse 3
Now the hallway bends like a spine
Every door has my voice
Every floorboard says, "run"
Every choice is a choice
I see the whole house breathing
Through vents full of blackened snow
And there in the mouth of the ceiling
Is the thing I used to know

It wears my fear like armor
It wears my name like a chain
It pulls my strings with a smile
And calls that mercy, calls that pain
I bite down hard on the dark
Till my jaw feels split in two
If I must be a vessel tonight
Then I choose what devours you

Outro
Not me
Not me
The room remembers my name
Not me
Not me
Say it again
Say it again
I am the door
I am the hinge
I am the noise
That lives within