T-Virus

Lyrics

Intro
I hear it crawling under skin
A patient shape inside the grin
Cold hands writing on my bones
Something learns my voice alone

Verse 1
I was clean, now I’m split
Black-thread hunger in the pit
Every pulse gets counted wrong
Every breath too sharp, too long
Mouth full of rust, eyes full of glass
I feed the thing that won’t pass
It wears my face when I blink
It drinks the dark before I think

Pre-Chorus
Say my name, it bends
Hear the wire in my head
Close the door, too late
It already knows the shape
It already knows the shape

Chorus
T-Virus
It lives in me
T-Virus
You can’t set me free
T-Virus
My blood says run
T-Virus
I’m the broken one

Breakdown
Hush
Hear the machine pray
Hush
Hear the marrow fray
Hush
I’m not human now
Hush
I’m the fallout

Verse 2
Mirror teeth, fever face
I move like a wound with grace
Small black lies in my throat
Turn my spine into a note
I can taste the panic bloom
Under every sealed-up room
I’m the door with no key
I’m the thing they won’t believe

Pre-Chorus
Say my name, it bends
Hear the wire in my head
Close the door, too late
It already knows the shape
It already knows the shape

Chorus
T-Virus
It lives in me
T-Virus
You can’t set me free
T-Virus
My blood says run
T-Virus
I’m the broken one

Bridge
I was a boy made of static and scars
Now I’m a signal from under the bars
Hands in the dark, they keep changing me
Built for the cage, but the cage can’t keep
This mouth shut, this pulse contained
This false heart, this silver chain
Kneel to the noise in the back of my skull
I was empty
Now I’m full

Breakdown
T-Virus
T-T-T-Virus
Say it low
Say it cold
Watch me fold
Watch me grow

Verse 3
Final form in a fever blink
I don’t sleep, I just sink
When I smile, the room gets thin
When I breathe, the cracks begin
No more fear in the frame
Just a body with a borrowed name
If I fall, I take the floor
If I rise, there’s room for more

Chorus
T-Virus
It lives in me
T-Virus
You can’t set me free
T-Virus
My blood says run
T-Virus
I’m the broken one

Outro
I hear it crawling under skin
A patient shape inside the grin
Cold hands writing on my bones
Something learns my voice alone