Playtime Hollow

Lyrics

Verse 1
Step in that factory, whole place fucked up
Blue fur in the dark, got my spine locked up
Smiling mouths wide, but the teeth don’t bluff
Little plastic hands and the whole room stuck

I hear box lids knock when the floorboards breathe
Dust on the shelves where the dead toys freeze
Every hallway bends like it knows my fear
And the air tastes sweet like a lie in here

Poppy on the glass with her fragile stare
Says “don’t go deeper,” but I’m already there
Train gone off track, now the tunnel hums
And the walls got eyes, motherfucker, run

Pre-Chorus
Keep calm, keep low
Don’t let them know
Hear that toy-box cough
And the lights go slow

One wrong step, yeah
Then the grin shows teeth
I came in alive
Now the dark wants me

Chorus
Playtime hollow
Run it back
Playtime hollow
Black on black

Don’t say my name
Don’t ring that bell
Playtime hollow
Straight to hell

(Playtime hollow)
Keep it close
(Playtime hollow)
Lose your hope

Verse 2
Huggy in the vent with a slow ass grin
Long blue arms while the whole room twitches
I’m ducking through a tube with a busted lip
Every corner sound like a body drips

Mommy got the yarn, got the pretty red hair
Moves like a curse with a surgical stare
Metal on the floor, hear the claws tap-tap
She don’t chase fast, she just waits for that

Jack-in-the-box heart in a rusted frame
I can feel the whole map warping by my name
One dead toy smile and the truth cuts through
This ain’t a game, this game plays you

GrabPack snap when I reach for the door
But the door gives back with a deeper roar
Factory lungs, and they wheeze my sin
I was never meant for what’s hid within

Pre-Chorus
Keep calm, keep low
Don’t let them know
Hear that toy-box cough
And the lights go slow

One wrong step, yeah
Then the grin shows teeth
I came in alive
Now the dark wants me

Chorus
Playtime hollow
Run it back
Playtime hollow
Black on black

Don’t say my name
Don’t ring that bell
Playtime hollow
Straight to hell

(Playtime hollow)
Keep it close
(Playtime hollow)
Lose your hope

Bridge
Old tapes crack, and the truth gets sick
Every laugh in the glass got a twisted tick
Children gone from the paint on the wall
Now the whole damn place remembers it all

If the lights go out, I don’t pray, I stare
Got a cold hard pulse and a busted nerve there
I hear them coming through the concrete seam
Like a stuffed-up nightmare in a broken dream

Breakdown
No sleep
No peace
Just teeth
In the dark

Cold hands
Long reach
Real slow
Then spark

Final Chorus
Playtime hollow
Run it back
Playtime hollow
Black on black

Don’t say my name
Don’t ring that bell
Playtime hollow
Straight to hell

(Playtime hollow)
Hear it moan
(Playtime hollow)
I’m not home

Playtime hollow
Lock that door
Playtime hollow
Nothing more