Cold Steel Prayer

Lyrics

Intro
I hear the lock turn slow
Behind my eyes
A patient shape
Learning my name

Verse 1
Sleep with one eye open
The walls are counting me
Tap tap in the ceiling
Something wants my memory
Hands in the vent line
Cold and thin and near
I taste rust in my mouth
When the dark gets clear

Pre-Chorus
Don’t look back
Don’t blink now
It knows your fear
It knows you now
Step by step
Skin tight, cold
The room goes gray
And you fold

Chorus
I am not safe
I am not safe
Machine-made grief
Inside my veins
I am not safe
I am not safe
Say my name
And break the frame

Breakdown
Cut me open
Count my bones
Feed the static
Feed it low
Clench and shatter
Hold that line
All my nerves
On borrowed time

Verse 2
Mirror on the metal
Shows a face I don’t know
Teeth like little hinges
Opening too slow
Every thought gets scanned now
Every pulse gets sold
I can feel the cold code
Crawling up my throat

Pre-Chorus
Don’t look back
Don’t blink now
It knows your fear
It knows you now
Step by step
Skin tight, cold
The room goes gray
And you fold

Chorus
I am not safe
I am not safe
Machine-made grief
Inside my veins
I am not safe
I am not safe
Say my name
And break the frame

Bridge
Whisper through the wiring
Tell me who I was
If I’m just a shadow
Why do I still buzz?
There’s a hand in the silence
Turning me to wire
I can hear the hunger
In the fever and the fire

Breakdown
Push it
Crush it
Bend that steel
No prayer left
Only teeth and will
Push it
Crush it
Blackout stare
If I go down
Drag you there

Verse 3
Now the floor starts breathing
Like a beast below
Every step I take
Makes the basement grow
You can hear it learning
You can feel it near
A human shape in pieces
With a voice like fear

Pre-Chorus
Don’t look back
Don’t blink now
It knows your fear
It knows you now
Step by step
Skin tight, cold
The room goes gray
And you fold

Chorus
I am not safe
I am not safe
Machine-made grief
Inside my veins
I am not safe
I am not safe
Say my name
And break the frame

Outro
Keep the door shut
Keep it shut
Breathe in ash
And bite it up
The lock is rust
The light is gone
And I’m still here
Still coming on