[Intro]
*(Double-bass drum roll fades in - muffled and frantic)*
*(Clean, high-pitched guitar riff repeats eerily)*
*(Whispered, erratic breathing)*
**(SUDDEN EXPLOSION - Guitars/drums/turntables collide)**
**(GUTTURAL SCREAM):** GET OUT!!!
[Verse 1]
Your eyes! Cold and blue!
Mine jade! And drowned in red!
The suffering! The pain!
The neurological torment swimming in my head!
Every synapse firing blanks! W*r inside the skull!
I’m drowning in the static and the ache is never dull!
**(Background scream):** (NEVER DULL!)
[Pre-Chorus]
You feel, I coddle... a bitter sweet crown.
I feel, you complain... a mask hides smiles upside down.
The plastic face is melting off!
**(Scream):** THE PLASTIC FACE IS MELTING OFF!
[Chorus]
I am a stranger inside my skin
B*****g alive from the rot within
Sever the nerves, k**l the sensation
I don’t need help, I need termination
Just let me bleed out the pain!
[Verse 2]
Whispers turn to yells! Skull fragmenting, ears bleed!
Intrusive thoughts tormenting! Planting the sickness, planting the seed!
Your burden! Their villain!
A martyr for the silence that I’m killin’!
I’m the monster under the bed! I’m the voice you dread!
I’m the bullet in the chamber of the things you said!
[Bridge]
I can’t let you see! *(The words cut in me!)*
I can’t let you see! *(The words cut in me!)*
PLEASE!
SEE!
ME!
FREE!
*(1 second silence)*
**(Explosive Breakdown - Slow, sludgy riff)**
GET OUT!
GET OUT!
GET OUT OF MY HEAD!
*(Horrific feedback, turntable scratches over breakdown)*
[Chorus]
I am a stranger inside my skin
B*****g alive from the rot within
Sever the nerves, k**l the sensation
I don’t need help, I need termination
Just let me bleed out the pain!
[Outro]
*(Double-time drums)*
NEUROLOGICAL TORMENT!
NEUROLOGICAL TORMENT!
YOUR EYES!
COLD!
AND!
BLUE!
*(Manic laughter fades into a wet cough)*
*(Spoken, ragged):* ...disconnected.