Nymphomaniac

Lyrics

Intro
Crawl through the seam
Crawl through the seam
Cold hands on the latch
Cold hands on the latch

Verse 1
You moved like a blade in a hallway
Soft-spoken, sharp-eyed, all wrong
I heard your heels in the metal
Tap-tap, then the room went gone
You said my name like a warning
Then bit it down to a grin
I felt the gears in my ribs lock
When you let the dark come in

Pre-Chorus
Back up, back up
Don't touch that spark
I can hear you breathing
Through the sparks in the dark
Closer, closer
That fevering stare
You pull the chain tight
And I go there

Chorus
Nymphomaniac
Pull me back
Nymphomaniac
Cut the slack
Nymphomaniac
Take what you lack
Nymphomaniac
Nymphomaniac

Verse 2
Your fingerprints on the drywall
Your lipstick on the steel
Every saint in the room got nervous
When you made that thing feel real
You laugh like a shorted motor
You pray with your teeth in line
I keep finding you in the static
Like a note that eats my mind

Pre-Chorus
Back up, back up
Don't touch that spark
I can hear you breathing
Through the sparks in the dark
Closer, closer
That fevering stare
You pull the chain tight
And I go there

Chorus
Nymphomaniac
Pull me back
Nymphomaniac
Cut the slack
Nymphomaniac
Take what you lack
Nymphomaniac
Nymphomaniac

Verse 3
Now the walls start twitching and twitching
Like they know your hidden name
I taste iron in the ceiling
When you spell that private flame
You crawl through my head like feedback
You live in the crack of the frame
If I swear I can leave you behind me
You come back wearing the same face

Breakdown
Hush
Hush
That sound
That sound
Hands like chains
Heart like a pound
Hush
Hush
Come down
Come down

Bridge
Tell me who you are when the lights die
Tell me what you want when the skin cracks
I saw the little monster smiling
In the mirror where the room went black
No prayer can weld this body shut
No lock can keep your hunger back
You made a shrine out of the damage
And I still walk straight back

Breakdown
Rattle the bone
Rattle the bone
Feed on the tone
Feed on the tone
I hear you in the walls
I hear you in the walls
Call after call
Call after call

Chorus
Nymphomaniac
Pull me back
Nymphomaniac
Cut the slack
Nymphomaniac
Take what you lack
Nymphomaniac
Nymphomaniac

Outro
Crawl through the seam
Crawl through the seam
Cold hands on the latch
Cold hands on the latch
Nymphomaniac
Nymphomaniac
Fade to black
Fade to black