[Verse 1]
I keep my thoughts in teacups
Fine cracks running down the side
Sip them slow at midnight
Hope the fractures stay inside
Books stacked like little ramparts
Paper soldiers on my floor
Every chapter painted over
Still that same unwritten war
[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me
Is this weather
Or the way my wiring bends
Storm fronts in a snow globe
Shaken by my own two hands (my own two hands)
[Chorus]
I’m a house with the lights on
No one home
Echoes in the hallway
All my ghosts on the phone
Every room redecorated
Still the ceiling caves in
Call it just another season on porcelain skin
On porcelain skin
On porcelain skin
[Verse 2]
I wear three different faces
Like coats hung by the door
Pick a smile that matches
The pattern of your worry
Yours
Planting little silver spoons
In flowerpots of doubt
Waiting for them all to bloom
Into ways to get out
[Pre-Chorus]
Is it rain or leaking paint
Running down my reflection
Can’t tell if I’m melting
Or learning a new direction (new direction)
[Chorus]
I’m a house with the lights on
No one home
Echoes in the hallway
All my ghosts on the phone
Every room redecorated
Still the ceiling caves in
Call it just another season on porcelain skin
On porcelain skin
(oh, porcelain skin)
[Bridge]
Some days I’m a vending machine
Buttons jammed with old receipts
Shake me for a blessing
All you get is falling sweets
Some nights I’m a traffic light
Stuck between the red and green
Everyone keeps honking
While I blink inside the screen
Tell me
Are these curses
Or crooked little gifts
I keep calling them my burdens
But they’re gears inside the lift (gears inside the lift)
[Chorus]
I’m a house with the lights on
No one home
Echoes in the hallway
All my ghosts on the phone
Every room redecorated
Still the ceiling caves in
Call it just another season on porcelain skin
I’m a clock with the hands off
Stuck at ten
Laughing at the silence like it’s one of my friends
If I crack
I’ll make a mosaic out of everywhere I’ve been
Call it just another season on porcelain skin
On porcelain skin
(on porcelain)
[Outro]
So I’ll host my tender chaos
Lay the table
Let it in
Every tremor
Every shiver
Is a story in the chin of my grin
If I’m strange
I’m still surviving
In this tilted little hymn
Being broken is just breathing
Through porcelain seasons
Porcelain skin