[Verse 1] Healing is warmth and light, It is also pus and pain. It is a candle glowing bright, It is a cloud of acid rain. It is a fever breaking, It is a wound that will not close. It is the skin beneath the scab, And the infection no one knows. [Verse 2] Knit me back together like a sweater with a patch, Try to find the old fabric, Try to find a piece to match. Pull the edges closer, Run the needle through the tare, Try to stitch together Something that was once there. [Pre-Chorus] Pull it tight, Watch it bleed. Cut away The things I need. [Chorus] (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! I KNOW WHAT I'M FEELING! LET IT OPEN! LET IT BLEED! THERE'S STILL SOMETHING LEFT OF ME! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that)HEALING! ALL THESE SCARS I'M KEEPING! SOMETHING LOST AND SOMETHING GAINED! SOMETHING LIVING THROUGH THE PAIN! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! [Verse 3] Healing is a crooked bone, That never grows quite straight. It is learning how to live When you can't amputate. It is a thousand little stitches, And a hundred coming loose. It is letting go of pieces That no longer have a use. [Pre-Chorus] Pull it tight, Watch it bleed. Cut away The things I need. [Chorus] (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! I KNOW WHAT I'M FEELING! LET IT OPEN! LET IT BLEED! THERE'S STILL SOMETHING LEFT OF ME! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that)HEALING! ALL THESE SCARS I'M KEEPING! SOMETHING LOST AND SOMETHING GAINED! SOMETHING LIVING THROUGH THE PAIN! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! [Bridge – Quiet, nearly whispered] Maybe I won't fit together, Like the person I once knew. Maybe all the missing pieces Were the things I outgrew. Maybe I can leave the seams, Maybe they can show. Maybe healing isn't fixing Everything that broke. [Final Chorus – Building to a desperate roar] (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! I KNOW WHAT I'M FEELING! LET IT OPEN! LET IT BLEED! THERE'S STILL SOMETHING LEFT OF ME! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that)HEALING! ALL THESE SCARS I'M KEEPING! SOMETHING LOST AND SOMETHING GAINED! SOMETHING LIVING THROUGH THE PAIN! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! [Outro – Soft, exhausted vocals] Healing is warmth and light, It is also pus and pain. It is a candle glowing bright, Still burning in the acid rain. (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING! (gimme that)HEALING! (gimme that) HEALING!
