Bolt in the Mouth

Lyrics

Intro
I hear you breathing through the wall
Too clean, too even, too small
A second skin with borrowed eyes
A mouth that smiles when I deny
(come closer)
(take the key)

Verse 1
Your shadow moved before your feet
I watched it twitch in the TV heat
Pins in my throat, a line of rust
My hands don’t shake, they grind to dust
You said my name like a command
Now there’s a hinge in my left hand
Clockwork panic in my chest
Something awake in the place I kept

Pre-Chorus
Lock the door
It learns the shape
Hold your breath
It hates escape
Hear it crawl
Through the frame
Say my name
Say my name

Chorus
Pull me under
(under)
Hold me there
(there)
Break my face
Make me stare
Pull me under
(under)
Lose control
(control)
I am the room
And you are the hole

Breakdown
Click-click
No pulse
No prayer
Cold wire
Thin air
Say it low
Say it plain
I was built
For the strain
(grind it down)
(grind it down)

Verse 2
The mirror blinks a half-second late
Like it’s waiting for me to make the shape
There’s a crawl in the quiet between my teeth
A private storm with no release
I fed the panic, it grew a mouth
Now it speaks when the lights go out
Every thought comes back in chains
Every nerve remembers pain

Pre-Chorus
Lock the door
It learns the shape
Hold your breath
It hates escape
Hear it crawl
Through the frame
Say my name
Say my name

Chorus
Pull me under
(under)
Hold me there
(there)
Break my face
Make me stare
Pull me under
(under)
Lose control
(control)
I am the room
And you are the hole

Bridge
No god in the wires
No mercy in the mesh
Just a hand on my spine
And a voice in my head
It says bend
It says kneel
It says swallow the steel
I tried to run
I tried to scream
But it wears my skin
And it walks in me

Verse 3
Now the hallway hums with my own steps
Like somebody else is coming next
I taste old pennies, burnt-out fear
And the thing inside is almost here
If I split apart, let it be loud
Let the whole house shake, let it tear the cloud
I won’t be saved, I won’t be spared
I’m already gone
I’m already there

Chorus
Pull me under
(under)
Hold me there
(there)
Break my face
Make me stare
Pull me under
(under)
Lose control
(control)
I am the room
And you are the hole

Outro
Click-click
Gone
No pulse
No tone
The shape is mine
But I’m not home
(under)
(there)
(hold me there)