Dark Days

Lyrics

Intro
Tick... tick...
Cold hands on the latch
I hear the metal breathe
And it hears me back
(shh)
One step in
Dark days

Verse 1
I woke up in a room with no names
Ash on the sink, black in the drain
Your shadow moved before you did
Like something learning how to live
The walls kept count of every scar
A hundred prayers locked in a jar
I tasted rust on my tongue again
Like the whole house knew where I’d been

Pre-Chorus
Say it low
Say it slow
The floorboards know
Where the bones go
One wrong breath
And it starts
The dark days
Pull apart

Chorus
Dark days, dark days
Hold my face
Dark days, dark days
Take your place
I can hear the machine in you
I can hear the machine in me
Dark days, dark days
Let me bleed
(deranged, deranged)
Dark days

Verse 2
There’s a keyhole eye in the ceiling crack
Watching every move I drag back
My heartbeat knocks on a locked steel gate
Then disappears in a mouth of shade
I saw your mouth say my old first name
But the sound came out like a fevered chain
Now the mirror gives me broken teeth
And laughs in a voice that isn’t me

Pre-Chorus
Say it low
Say it slow
The floorboards know
Where the bones go
One wrong breath
And it starts
The dark days
Pull apart

Chorus
Dark days, dark days
Hold my face
Dark days, dark days
Take your place
I can hear the machine in you
I can hear the machine in me
Dark days, dark days
Let me bleed
(deranged, deranged)
Dark days

Bridge
Don’t come close
Don’t come near
I made a nest
Out of every fear
Claw marks deep
In the iron skin
If you open that door
You let it in
(turn, turn)
It knows my hands
It knows my name
It wears my mouth
It feeds the flame

Breakdown
Kneel
Crack
Slow collapse
Drag me back
(come on)
Bone by bone
Lock by lock
There’s no sleep
When the teeth don’t stop

Verse 3
Now the dawn looks sick through dirty glass
Like a nurse with a blade in a paper mask
I tried to run, but the hall bent wrong
And your voice came back in a broken song
So I gave the dark what the dark wanted
Every last fear, every lie I haunted
If I’m the ghost in the wired frame
Then say it again
Say the name

Pre-Chorus
Say it low
Say it slow
The floorboards know
Where the bones go
One wrong breath
And it starts
The dark days
Pull apart

Chorus
Dark days, dark days
Hold my face
Dark days, dark days
Take your place
I can hear the machine in you
I can hear the machine in me
Dark days, dark days
Let me bleed
(deranged, deranged)
Dark days

Breakdown
Hit
Hard
Head to the floor
One more pulse
Then nothing more
(grind it down)
Glass in the throat
Static in the chest
Dark days
Never let me rest

Outro
Tick... tick...
Cold hands on the latch
I hear the metal breathe
And it hears me back
(shh)
One step in
Dark days