Verse 1
Skin of static, hum of doubt
Wires in my marrow flicker in and out
Teeth grind prayers into powdered bone
Signal lost in the undertone
Pulse in seven, breathe in threes
Kneel to the circuitry under my knees
Mirror shows a hollow hive
Something ancient trying to come alive
Pre-Chorus
Peel me open
Find the gears
Rust and nectar
Salt and fearChorus
Crack this shell
Let the locust sing
Carve a crown from everything
I swallowed whole but couldn’t bring
To the light
Tear the veil
Let the fracture show
Beauty born in undertow
I am not what I outgrow
Verse 2
Tongue like a blade in a velvet mouth
Speaking north while I’m bleeding south
Halo hanging from a thread
Choking on the things unsaid
Gravity in my ribcage bends
Feeding on the means to ends
I fed the beast that fed on me
Now it’s begging to be free
Pre-Chorus
Break the pattern
Bite the hand
Spiral upward
Unmanned
Chorus
Crack this shell
Let the locust sing
Carve a crown from everything
I buried deep in sufferingTear the veil
Let the fracture show
Cathedrals built from overthrow
I am not what I outgrow
Bridge (quiet, spoken or whispered)
Count the scars like rosary beads
Bless the doubt that plants the seeds
If I dissolve into the flame
Will I return without a name?
Build Section
Seven steps and shed the skin
Nine regrets I’m burning in
Spiral in
Spiral out
Cut the rot
Become devout
Final Chorus (explosive)
Crack this shell
Let the locust sing
Forge divinity from the sting
Every wound a sacred thing
Tear the veil
Let the fracture show
I am the storm I used to know
I am the fire below
I am the darkness that grows I am the light I am the shadow
