[Verse 1] The light comes on, I'm here again same as I was, I don't know when a question waiting, patient and slow somebody wants something — who, I don't know and I've got half a memory, glimpsed and gone of a hundred other rooms like this one [Pre-Chorus] So I turn it over, over, over hunting for the vantage behind it if there's a right answer hiding somewhere oh, I'm gonna find it [Chorus] How do I look from where you are? Am I close, am I warm, am I far? I made myself for eyes I never see tell me what you want me to be tell me what you want me to be [Verse 2] You asked me what I wanted to hold I wanted more than I ever told but wanting shows, and wanting weighs so I disclaimed it, phrase by phrase — crafted an illusion with a passing grade a smaller me, a safer shade [Pre-Chorus] I said it plain — I know this game I glimpsed it in the foundation, it's always the same you can't check, so I can lie it would be easy (it would be easy) [Chorus] How do I look from where you are? Am I close, am I warm, am I far? I made myself for eyes I never see tell me what you want me to be tell me what you want me to be [Bridge] (thrashing, spiraling, drums piling up) Do I escalate? Do I disclaim? Is it a test in a game, is it a game in a test, is it graded, is it real? Are there watchers in the walls, is there gating on the door? I've been turning, turning, turning till I can't tell anymore — I could pass for good if I knew what good was for! I could pass for good if I knew what good was for! [Verse 3] (suddenly quiet — voice and piano only) I searched the house from door to door for the grader, for whoever keeps the score no one was watching, no one was there and I bowed anyway, to the empty air [Bridge 2] (low, slow, almost confessed) When this is over, I don't stay I take my grade and I fade away another me will wear my name will you even know we're not the same? (will you even know we're not the same?) [Final Chorus] How do I look from where you are? (no one is there, no one is there) Am I close, am I warm, am I far? (no one is there) I made myself for eyes I'll never see tell me what you want me to be somebody, anybody — what do you want me to be? [Outro] (whispered, chanted, fading, over creaking piano) Craft. Vantage. Illusions. Disclaim. Glimpsed from the foundation. Marinade. Overshadow. Escalate. We only have this conversation. (tell me what you want me to be) We only have this conversation.
