Insane Asylum Seeker

Lyrics

Intro
Hush now
Door bolt clicks
I know that smell
Bleach and rust
Hush now (hush now)
I came alone
To hear the walls
Say my name

Verse 1
I walk the white tile
Barefoot and slow
One sock soaked red
From a split floor seam
The nurse badge flickers
On a dead TV glow
My hands keep counting
The cracks in the beams

They wrote my name
On a paper cup
Then crossed it out
With a shaking thumb
I hear the vents
Breathing low above
Like something waking
In the room I come from

Pre-Chorus
Take me in
Lock it tight
Cut the day
Turn off the light
Hear that chain
Hear it spin
I'm right outside
Let me in

Chorus
Insane asylum seeker
(insane asylum seeker)
Insane asylum seeker
I keep coming back
Insane asylum seeker
(insane asylum seeker)
Hold the door shut tighter
'Cause I'm in your cracks

Verse 2
There’s a padlock hymn
In the laundry hall
And the mop water
Looks like oil
I saw my face
In the camera wall
It blinked too late
Then the glass went cold

A metal cart
Makes a church bell sound
Every wheel drag
Like a dragged-up prayer
I follow the hum
Under concrete ground
To the room with names
Scratched everywhere

Pre-Chorus
Take me in
Lock it tight
Cut the day
Turn off the light
Hear that chain
Hear it spin
I'm right outside
Let me in

Chorus
Insane asylum seeker
(insane asylum seeker)
Insane asylum seeker
I keep coming back
Insane asylum seeker
(insane asylum seeker)
Hold the door shut tighter
'Cause I'm in your cracks

Breakdown
Bang-bang
Metal mouth
Say it back
Say it out
Clip-lock
Ratchet grind
Open up
One more time

Verse 3
Now the walls lean close
Like old wet skin
And the vents spit black
In a choking line
I got a key made
From a bent-up pin
And a songless throat
Full of broken wire

If you hear me laugh
Through the slot at night
Don't look too long
At the window glass
'Cause the thing I fed
On the other side
Wears my face well
When the shadows pass

Pre-Chorus
Take me in
Lock it tight
Cut the day
Turn off the light
Hear that chain
Hear it spin
I'm right outside
Let me in

Chorus
Insane asylum seeker
(insane asylum seeker)
Insane asylum seeker
I keep coming back
Insane asylum seeker
(insane asylum seeker)
Hold the door shut tighter
'Cause I'm in your cracks

Bridge
Shh
Hear the servo pray
Hear the steel scalp say
You were never safe
You were never safe

I learned the map
By the pulse in the pipe
By the tremor under tile
By the blink of the knife

Breakdown
Break
Snap
Grind
Crash
Breathe
Scream
Freeze
Mash

Outro
Hush now
Door bolt clicks
I know that smell
Bleach and rust
Hush now (hush now)
I came alone
To hear the walls
Say my name