[Verse 1]
I wake up already gone
Hands move first
Then the breath comes late
Face in the mirror like a cheap mask
Eyes look through me
Nothing looking back
Crowd in my head keeps marching
But my feet just drag in time
Smile stitched tight like plastic
Every word feels like a lie
[Chorus]
I’m just a puppet in my skin
Watching this body stumble in
Dragged through an endless
Burning parade
Till we all march off the edge again
I’m just a puppet in my skin
[Verse 2]
They pull my arms into a handshake
Paint my mouth in polite replies
Nod when they laugh on cue
I’m somewhere else
Above the sky
Hear the drumbeat getting closer
Same old chant in a stranger’s voice
They clap as I go through the motions
I never had a choice
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
If I cut these strings
Would I finally fall
Or wake up at all
Would the silence be mercy
Or nothing at all
[whispered vocals]
Line up
Step
Step
Toward the cliff edge
Step
You cheer
I slip
Let the hollow shell go over it
[Chorus]