[Verse 1]
Wake up in a stranger’s bones
Teeth on edge
Tongue tastes rust
Every breath
Like glass in the lungs
Mirror shakes when I lean in
Eyes too bright
Pupils split
Hear my name
But the sound doesn’t fit (doesn’t fit)
[Pre-Chorus]
I wore the mask too long
Now it’s grown under my skin
Every lie I used to live
Is pulling my veins from within
[Chorus]
This is the pain of the metamorph skin
Tearing me open from under
From in
I feel the claws where my hands used to be
Losing my face just to finally see
If I become the monster I fear
Will anything of me still be here?
This is the pain
This is the pain of changing
[Verse 2]
Nails turn black in the half-light
Knuckles crack
Jaw unhinged
Hear that low
New animal hymn (hey!)
All the promises I buried
Bloom as thorns
Down my spine
Every choice
Growing into a spine
[Pre-Chorus]
Can’t crawl back to who I was
He’s ash under these scales
Every scar that starts to glow
Spells out my private hell
[Chorus]
This is the pain of the metamorph skin
Tearing me open from under
From in
I feel the claws where my hands used to be
Losing my face just to finally see
If I become the monster I fear
Will anything of me still be here?
This is the pain
This is the pain of changing
[Bridge]
[Roars swell from distant to close
Drums build]
I am the howl I used to run from (run from)
I am the teeth behind the door
I am the shadow in my own blood
I am the hunger asking “more”
[Chorus]
This is the pain of the metamorph skin
Tearing me open from under
From in
I feel the claws where my hands used to be
Losing my face just to finally see
If I become the monster I fear
Will anything of me still be here?
This is the pain
This is the price of changing
[Outro]
Last human word on a broken breath
“My god…
What have I been?” (woah)
Then the growl
Answers back from within