[Intro]
Writing names in my notebook
Red ink on the ruled lines
Silent room, ticking clock
Still, I redraw your outline (yeah)
[Verse 1]
Got my pen like a promise
Every letter like a law that I wrote
Every mark that I carve in the margin
Feels sharper than a knife in your throat
Cold page, but my pulse going violent
Quiet kid with a riot in his mind
You laugh, but you live in defiance
I laugh, ’cause I’m re-writing your life
Little list in the spine of the journal
Folded corner where I file your sins
You pray that the rumors stay verbal
I pray just to see where it ends (hah)
You walk past and your heart skips once
Mine keeps time, I’m aligning the counts
One breath, two steps, three thoughts
One name that I’m crossing out
[Chorus]
Shinigami eyes, I decide
Who gets a dawn, who stays in night
You can run, you can plead, you can hide
But the truth won’t live under my light
Writing names, yeah, page by page
I feel divine when I hold this rage
Shinigami eyes, no disguise
I see straight through your borrowed face (woah)
[Verse 2]
Slow burn, let the fear drip thicker
You pretend that you never did dirt
But your hands got the stain in the picture
And I frame that guilt in a word
Whole class whisper, “Who’s next?”
You joke loud just to drown your dread
I lean back, just tapping the desk
Like I’m counting down til your thread gets cut
Pen cap tap like a second hand
You can hear it when the lecture ends
You can hear it in the echo of the hallway
Footsteps fade, but your sins stay friends
Pages flip, and your lie gets louder
Name gets heavy in my head, press harder
You say “prove it,” all smug in the corner
I don’t need proof when I play as the author (hey!)
[Chorus]
Shinigami eyes, I decide
Who gets a dawn, who stays in night
You can run, you can plead, you can hide
But the truth won’t live under my light
Writing names, yeah, page by page
I feel divine when I hold this rage
Shinigami eyes, no disguise
I see straight through your borrowed face
[Bridge]
Truth in my lines
Death in my script
You think you’re fine
You’re already picked
You beg for lies
I only give lists
Every last crime
Summed up in ink (ooh)
[Chorus]
Shinigami eyes, I decide
Who gets a dawn, who stays in night
You can run, you can plead, you can hide
But the truth won’t live under my light
Writing names, yeah, page by page
I feel divine when I hold this rage
Shinigami eyes, no disguise
I see straight through your borrowed face (shinigami eyes)
I see straight through your borrowed face