Clockwork Teeth

Lyrics

Intro
I heard you click in the wall
small steps behind the skin
something learned my name
and wore it like a grin

Verse 1
Your hands move like a tool
cold and perfect, cold and clean
I watch the twitch in your jaw
like a wire in a dream
You speak in broken codes
with a mouth that won't obey
I feel you in the corners
every time I look away

Pre-Chorus
Tick
then the room goes thin
Grip
and you pull me in
Blink
I can hear you start
Sleep
inside my heart

Chorus
Pull the string
make me bend
Possessed again
Possessed again
Cold machine
in my skin
Possessed again
Possessed again

Breakdown
Snap my spine
count me in
One more mouth
under your grin
Hands on the frame
eyes in the vent
Say my name
say my name

Verse 2
There's a line in the carpet
where the shadow starts to crawl
Little bites in the silence
like a nail inside the wall
You don't rage, you don't scream
you just wait and you just stare
Then I catch my own reflection
with your manners in its hair

Pre-Chorus
Tick
then the room goes thin
Grip
and you pull me in
Blink
I can hear you start
Sleep
inside my heart

Chorus
Pull the string
make me bend
Possessed again
Possessed again
Cold machine
in my skin
Possessed again
Possessed again

Verse 3
Now the pulse in the hallway
hits the beat of my blood
Every door in the house
learns to open from the mud
I try to call my own name
but it fractures on the way
And your voice in my mouth now
says the things I cannot say

Breakdown
Kneel
when the bolts come loose
Feel
what the dark can do
Steel
in the tender part
Pull me apart
pull me apart

Bridge
If I break, let me break
if I fade, let me fade
There's a stranger in the mirror
wearing my face
If I run, you will wait
if I hide, you will find
I was never alone here
you were built in my mind

Chorus
Pull the string
make me bend
Possessed again
Possessed again
Cold machine
in my skin
Possessed again
Possessed again

Outro
I hear you click in the wall
small steps behind the skin
something learned my name
and never let me win