[Intro — distant choir / bell toll]
“Tell me who you are…”
[tape static]
[piano enters slowly]
[Verse 1]
I wear a borrowed face tonight…
Soft as silk… pale as candlelight…
[pause]
Speak in pretty little lies…
Hide the dark behind my eyes…
There is something underneath…
Breathing softly… haunting me…
[pause — low guitar swell]
[Pre-Chorus]
I learned your human language…
Just enough to seem alive…
[Chorus — heavy guitars + choir]
She lives beneath my skin…
Whispering softly from within…
One heart black…
One heart pure…
[pause]
I don’t know myself anymore…
She wears my voice…
She wears my name…
But when she smiles
I feel afraid…
[Verse 2 — quieter / eerie]
Every mirror knows the truth…
There are two of me in this room…
One of flesh…
One of shadow…
[pause]
And both are slowly losing control…
I learned to imitate love…
Like a prayer without a god above…
Cold hands dressed in velvet lace…
Trying to look human again…
[Bridge — whispered]
If I opened up my ribs…
Would you find a soul inside?
[pause — choir only]
Or just ruins…
Still pretending to be divine…
[Breakdown — crushing guitars]
There is a ghost beneath my skin…
A beautiful sickness living within…
[pause]
And every time somebody loves me…
She tears herself awake again…
[Final Chorus — massive / tragic]
She lives beneath my skin…
Crawling through my veins again…
One half wants to disappear…
One half begs for someone near…
[pause — instruments suddenly cut]
And if you saw my real face…
Would you run…
Or worship me in ruin?
[Outro — piano fading]
“Tell me who you are…”
[pause]
…I no longer know.