[Intro]
Light flicks
Wall drip
Door lock clicks
Heart skip
Cold chains
Rust stain
Little voice:
“Let it in again” (yeah)
[Verse 1]
Mask on crooked
Eyes all static
Carve my name
In the padded attic
Teeth like keys
On a busted piano
Laugh in reverse
Speak fluent shadow
Strobes in the cellar
Turn dust to ghosts
Got a jar on the shelf
Full of severed hopes
Every step on the stairs
Play a spine like a drum
If you hear that hum
Then you already done (done)
[Chorus]
Welcome to the basement bass ritual
Every bar, every scar, habitual
When it drops, feel the floor turn spiritual
Spin your head ‘til your soul not visual
I’m the thing in the crawlspace, grinning
Every kick drum, blood starts spinning
Say my name in the dark, that’s criminal
This that basement bass ritual (ritual)
[Verse 2]
Clock hit twelve
All screens bleed static
I rewrite nightmares
Line for line, graphic
Tongue taste rust
When the lights cut out
See a shape in the corner
With a wide-cut mouth
Breath so thick
Turn air to tar
You can run upstairs
But I live in your car
See me in the rearview
Blacked-out frame
Every subline spell out
Your first, last name (yeah)
[Chorus]
Welcome to the basement bass ritual
Every bar, every scar, habitual
When it drops, feel the floor turn spiritual
Spin your head ‘til your soul not visual
I’m the thing in the crawlspace, grinning
Every kick drum, blood starts spinning
Say my name in the dark, that’s criminal
This that basement bass ritual (ritual)
[Bridge]
Hands on the walls
They move when you blink
Hear a laugh in the pipes
Feel it crawl through the sink
If the floor start breathing
And the doors unhinge
That’s me, that’s me
On the fringe of the fringe (hey!)
[Chorus]
Welcome to the basement bass ritual
Every bar, every scar, habitual
When it drops, feel the floor turn spiritual
Spin your head ‘til your soul not visual
I’m the thing in the crawlspace, grinning
Every kick drum, blood starts spinning
Say my name in the dark, that’s criminal
This that basement bass ritual (ritual)