Dead to Rights

Lyrics

Intro
Mm-mm
Tick, tick
I’m in the seams
I’m in the seams

Verse 1
Cold hands on the latch
But the door stays open
Name in the floorboards
Like it’s been spoken

Glass in the sink
And a stain on the tile
I’m counting my teeth
With a crooked smile

They left me a room
With a bolt and a chair
I learned how to breathe
From the mold in the air

Pale little marks
On the back of my skull
Like somebody tried
To make me more dull

Pre-Chorus
Now I hear the hum
Under my skin
Something wakes up
When you let it in

Eyes in the wall
Hands in the wall
I don’t fall down
I don’t fall down

Chorus
Dead to rights
Dead to rights
Say it again
Dead to rights

Dead to rights
Dead to rights
I’m still here
I’m still here

Verse 2
They fed me bright pills
In a paper cup
Said “take these slow”
But I never looked up

Mirrors got thin
And the air got mean
My shadow came back
With a different sheen

I walk past the room
Where the old tape plays
All I hear now
Is a mouthless praise

Sutures of thought
In a wire cage
I bite on the dark
And it changes shape

Pre-Chorus
Now I hear the hum
Under my skin
Something wakes up
When you let it in

Bones in the wall
Names in the wall
I don’t break down
I don’t break down

Chorus
Dead to rights
Dead to rights
Say it again
Dead to rights

Dead to rights
Dead to rights
I’m still here
I’m still here

Breakdown
Check the pulse
It won’t behave
Check the mask
It learned my face

Click-clack
Tongue like chain
I say my name
It sounds the same

Verse 3
I was built from the scraps
Of a ruined prayer
From a bent coat hanger
And a blackout stare

Now I move through the smoke
With a split-eye grin
If you want me gone
Better let me in

No saint in the frame
No light in the room
Just a slow-turn key
And a lock on the moon

So call me the glitch
Call me the wound
I’m the thing in the mirror
That comes too soon

Bridge
When the room goes still
I don’t go quiet
I get sharp
I get wired

You can shut that gate
You can chain that door
I was made for the crack
In the wooden floor

Say my name
If you want the shock
I come back hard
And I don’t stop

Breakdown
Dead to rights
Dead to rights
Dead to rights
Dead to rights

Chorus
Dead to rights
Dead to rights
Say it again
Dead to rights

Dead to rights
Dead to rights
I’m still here
I’m still here

Outro
Mm-mm
Tick, tick
I’m in the seams
I’m in the seams