[Intro]
Something under the floorboards
Counts each breath I take
[Verse 1]
I keep a cellar in my chest
With locks made out of bone
Every mercy I dissect
Leaves another mouth unknown
The walls lean in when I confess
The dust repeats my name
I feed the dark with tenderness
Then blame it for the flame
[Pre-Chorus]
There is no beast beneath my skin
That I did not invite in
[Chorus]
My inner monsters wear my face
They know the shape of every place
Where I am weakest, where I break
They pull the teeth from every prayer I make
I built this ruin brick by brick
With every lie I called a fix
When all the heavens turn away
I hear them breathing through my veins
[Verse 2]
A red mark circles every door
I drew it years ago
I cannot tell what I am for
Or what I came here to destroy
The hands that reach to pull me out
Are hands I taught to fear
I turn compassion inside out
And make a weapon of the cure
[Pre-Chorus]
There is no judge beyond the glass
Only the verdict I am
[Chorus]
My inner monsters wear my face
They know the shape of every place
Where I am weakest, where I break
They pull the teeth from every prayer I make
I built this ruin brick by brick
With every lie I called a fix
When all the heavens turn away
I hear them breathing through my veins
[Bridge]
If the world ends, let it find me here
Kneeling beside what I became
No trumpet, no absolution
No clean hands left to raise
I opened every sealed room
I named each hunger mine
Now something ancient moves my mouth
And speaks in my voice tonight
[Breakdown]
Cut the cord
Kill the witness
Bury the light beneath the ribs
No more doors
No forgiveness
Let the animal finish what it began
[Final Chorus]
My inner monsters wear my face
They have consumed the last safe place
I am the lock, I am the blade
I am the debt that will not fade
I built this ruin brick by brick
And called the falling pieces fate
When all the heavens turn away
The thing inside me takes my name
[Outro]
Something under the floorboards
Has learned to sound like me
Something under the floorboards
Will be the last thing I release