Ethereal Eerie Shadow

Lyrics

Intro
I saw my name in the glass
Then it blinked back wrong
Cold little fingers
Counting up the dark
Tape stutter
Hold still
Hold still

Verse 1
The hallway bends when I walk
Walls breathing in and out
My teeth taste iron
Every shadow has my mouth
The screen turns black
When I say your name
Static in my chest
Like a cage with no frame
I hear the steps
But they come from inside
One more pulse
And the room gets wider
Glitch
Don't look
Don't look

Pre-Chorus
It's under my skin
It's learning my shape
I can't shake the room
It knows my face
Closer now
Too close now

Chorus
Ethereal eerie shadow
Don't let it in
Ethereal eerie shadow
It lives in my skin
Break me open
Call me out
Ethereal eerie shadow
I'm the noise in the house

Verse 2
The mirror keeps my secrets
Then spits them back red
Every grin on my reflection
Feels borrowed from the dead
Bootsteps in the furnace
Chains in the drain
I lock every door
Still the lock says my name
Your voice comes through
Like a wire in rain
Says "come downstairs"
Then goes away
I swallow hard
And the ceiling leans
Like it wants to watch
What I do in my sleep

Pre-Chorus
It's under my skin
It's learning my shape
I can't shake the room
It knows my face
Closer now
Too close now

Chorus
Ethereal eerie shadow
Don't let it in
Ethereal eerie shadow
It lives in my skin
Break me open
Call me out
Ethereal eerie shadow
I'm the noise in the house

Verse 3
Now the floorboards pulse
Like a second heart
The walls peel back
To reveal their parts
A thousand eyes
In a busted frame
All of them blinking
When I say my name
I was the lock
I was the key
I was the thing
That was hunting me
So if I run
It runs in time
Same broken face
Same jagged line

Bridge
Whispered
Under the tongue
Under the bone
Under the breath
You were never alone
Filtered doubles
You were never alone
You were never alone
I hear the hook in the wires
I hear it climb
From the cellar of my skull
To the top of my spine

Breakdown
Kick it down
Let it out
Break my jaw
Break my house
Gotta, gotta
Gotta get free
But the thing in the mirror
Keeps mimicking me
Stutter
Split
Crack
Repeat
My hands are чужие
My knees won't meet

Breakdown
Ethereal eerie shadow
Say it again
Ethereal eerie shadow
Followed me in
Ethereal eerie shadow
Under my bed
Ethereal eerie shadow
Inside my head

Outro
The room goes quiet
But not for long
I hear it breathing
In the paused-out song
One last blink
Then the dark swells slow
And my mouth says
"Don't let me go"