*(Soft glitchy synth pad, barely there, like a heartbeat through a wall)*
**(Verse 1 — breathy, intimate, Frou Frou-forward)**
I want a mouth that doesn't move when it speaks
I want a hand that forgets it has fingers
I kept your teeth in a jar by the bed
And every morning I counted them like change
You said the smell was just the house settling
But houses don't settle, they rot from the inside
And I've been inside long enough to know
The difference between settling and sinking
*(Subtle drum machine pattern enters, clinical and cold)*
**(Verse 2 — still dreamy but tension building, glitchy vocal layers)**
I stitched your shadow to the back of my coat
So someone would always be walking behind me
But it stretched in the rain and now it looks like you
And I can't get it off, I can't get it off
The thermostat's broken, it's always 98 degrees
And my skin is melting off in interesting ways
You'd probably say something clever about it
But I ate your voice box last November
*(Bass synth enters, warm and pulsing, The Faint influence creeping in)*
**(Pre-Chorus — rhythm picks up, vocals shift from whisper to strain)**
Don't tell me what the x-ray says
I already know what's living in there
Don't tell me what the x-ray says
I already know, I already know
It's got my face but it eats like you
It's got my face but it eats like you
*(Full band detonation — guitar tapping, screaming synths, blast beats, Fall of Troy chaos erupting through Frou Frou's atmosphere)*
**(Chorus — screamed and sung simultaneously, dual vocals tearing in different directions)**
I am a furnace without a house!
I am a mouth without a meal!
I am a furnace without a house!
I am a mouth without a meal!
I burned the blueprints but the walls stayed up
And now I'm living in the architecture of a dead man's dream
And everything I swallow comes back up as a question
And every question tastes like formaldehyde!
*(Everything collapses to just glitchy synth and a single falsetto)*
**(Verse 3 — fragile, almost lullaby, Frou Frou dominance)**
I taught myself to sleep with one eye open
So I could watch the ceiling decompose
You used to say I was dramatic
But you never saw what crawled out of the vent
I named them all after your old friends
They respond to voice commands
And when I whisper "stay" they scatter
Just like the real ones did
*(Drums re-enter, harder this time, The Faint pushing through)*
**(Verse 4 — aggressive, staccato, synth-punk drive)**
I am not a person I am a series of reactions!
I am not a person I am a chemical spill in a skin suit!
Don't touch me without gloves, don't touch me without gloves
I will stain your fingers for a week
I will stain your fingers for a week
And you'll keep smelling me on your hands
And you'll keep smelling me on your hands
In the shower, in the car, in your mother's kitchen
And you'll wonder if it was ever me at all
Or just the idea of something rotting nearby
[Outro]
*(Math rock guitar breakdown, erratic, dissonant)