My Creeping Fate

Lyrics

Intro
Tick, tick under the floor
A metal breath behind the door
My name keeps fading in the glass
Something hungry moving past

Verse 1
I wake up to the same old crack
In the wall where the dark looks back
Pills in a tin, teeth on edge
Footsteps pacing at the bed's edge
The mirror blinks, then looks away
Like it knows the words I won't say
There's a shape in the static grin
And it wears my skin

Pre-Chorus
You can hear it in the wires
Low and close, it never tires
One more turn and I'm not free
It's crawling closer into me

Chorus
My creeping fate
It knows my name
My creeping fate
It plays the game
Oh, it waits
Under my skin
My creeping fate
Let me in

Verse 2
Every hallway bends too tight
Every shadow learns my height
The TV spits my thoughts in red
Names I buried, things I said
A buzzing prayer in the broken light
My own voice talking through the night
I count the cracks, I count the scars
It counts them back from where it starts

Pre-Chorus
You can hear it in the wires
Low and close, it never tires
One more turn and I'm not free
It's crawling closer into me

Chorus
My creeping fate
It knows my name
My creeping fate
It plays the game
Oh, it waits
Under my skin
My creeping fate
Let me in

Breakdown
Slow
Cold
Hands on the throat of the room
I fold
I fold
Every black thought blooms
Say it
Say it
Like a code I can't erase
My creeping fate
My creeping fate

Verse 3
Now the doors all swing on their own
And the walls are packed with bone-dry stones
I see my face in the furnace glow
Half gone where the black rain flows
No escape in the locked-down mind
When the trap was built from inside
I hear my heartbeat sync with the machine
Like it dreamed this scene

Pre-Chorus
You can hear it in the wires
Low and close, it never tires
One more turn and I'm not free
It's crawling closer into me

Chorus
My creeping fate
It knows my name
My creeping fate
It plays the game
Oh, it waits
Under my skin
My creeping fate
Let me in

Bridge
Turn the glass
Turn the glass
Show me what I used to be
Split the room
Split the room
Till the hungry thing is me
If I run, it runs behind
If I scream, it learns my mind
No more saints
No more lies
Just the shape behind my eyes

Breakdown
Hit
And split
The floor goes black and bright
Clawing in
The broken grin
Beneath the failing light
My creeping fate
My creeping fate
My creeping fate

Outro
Tick, tick under the floor
A metal breath behind the door
If I vanish, let the echo stay
Calling me by name
My creeping fate