[Verse 1]
You said wisdom
Sharpens on friction
I kept my edges
Safe in fiction
All these careful thoughts
Never leave the page
Like a blade that only
Ever kissed the cake
Truth taste sweet
When it don’t cost
But it don’t cut deep
Till you take loss
I been hiding
In the theory I made
Scared to swing at the world
And see what breaks
[Chorus]
This truth a danger game
Cut close
Draw blood
Say my name (say my name)
If it never risks a thing
It just stays in my brain
Like a sword that only
Ever melts through butter
Never learns the weight
Of a body under
This truth a danger game
Every step
One slip from flame (from flame)
Wisdom only wakes
When the lies get slain
So I let it slice my shame
In this soul trance
[Verse 2]
You pulled my comfort
Out from under
Made my pretty theories
Tear asunder
Said
“Let what you believe
Hit bone
If it can’t stand pain
It can’t be home”
Now every question
Got a scarred edge
Every quiet prayer
Walks a thin ledge
I see my reflection
In what I fear
Steel in my hand
Rings cold and clear
[Chorus]
This truth a danger game
Cut close
Draw blood
Say my name (say my name)
If it never risks a thing
It just stays in my brain
Like a sword that only
Ever melts through butter
Never learns the weight
Of a body under
This truth a danger game
Every step
One slip from flame (from flame)
Wisdom only wakes
When the lies get slain
So I let it slice my shame
In this soul trance (soul trance)
[Bridge]
Let it cut me honest
Leave me open
Haunted
Every wound
A doorway I pass through
If the cost is heartbreak
I’ll still take the heartache
Better broken real
Than perfect and untrue
[Chorus]
This truth a danger game
Cut close
Draw blood
Say my name (say my name)
If it never risks a thing
It just stays in my brain
Like a sword that only
Ever melts through butter
Never learns the weight
Of a body under
This truth a danger game
Every step
One slip from flame (from flame)
Wisdom only wakes
When the lies get slain
So I let it slice my shame
In this soul trance
In this soul trance (oh)
In this soul trance