[Verse 1]
Basement light
Flickers
Buzzes
Stains the floor
Old belt
Still hanging from the door
Their photos
Crooked on the peeling wall
Every frame
Another nail to pull
[Verse 2]
Hear them
Crawling in the back of my skull
"Make them feel it"
Every word feels full
Of rust
Of rot
Of every night I begged to sleep
Their laughter
Still buried in my teeth
[Chorus]
I find comfort in the screams
Soft like blankets over me
Every shiver
Every plea
Rock me back to younger me
I find comfort in the screams
Broken lullabies I need
All the hurt they fed to me
Now it spills
And I can breathe
[Verse 3]
Duct tape
Wrinkled like my paper skin
Shaking hands
Tracing where the bruises had been
It's clumsy
Stumbles
Slips
I lose the knife
They whimper
Like I did
Begging for my life
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
"Am I monster?
Or the child you built from blood?"
[whispered vocals]
"You remember
You remember
Every boot
Every shove"
[growled]
I don't aim straight
I don't cut clean
I just echo
What you taught me to be
[Chorus]