Scanner darkly (v6 redux 12.47)

[Intro] [Radio static, reversed crowd, distant metal resonance] [Verse 1] Every fuckin’ morning I step in this shifting skin Thousand faces flicker across my chest, shit lookin’ thin One second I’m the trusted voice they all believe Next second I’m the shadow they obsess and can’t leave [Pre-Chorus] Substance D tearin’ the thin divide apart Left hemisphere whisperin’ lies to the right, playin’ smart I don’t even know which voice is mine no more Or which one just borrowed the night and y in the door [Chorus] Scanner darkly I stare into the glass, bitch Scanner darkly Can’t tell the watcher from the watched, this shit’s a trip Oou [Verse 2] I watch myself on them cold fluorescent screens A stranger driftin’ through my own rooms, lookin’ mean Friends wearin’ masks of possible traitors, straight fraud Traitors wearin’ the faces of old wounds that still raw [Pre-Chorus] Donna move like smoke that refuse to settle, slick Luckman laughin’ at jokes the dark invent, real sick Barris spinnin’ them webs of almost-truth, full of shit While I record every second of this present-tense trip [Chorus] Scanner darkly I stare into the glass, bitch Scanner darkly Can’t tell the watcher from the watched, this shit’s a trip [Bridge] They sent me under to observe the others, undercover Now I observe the slow collapse of self, no recovery The chemical don’t respect no fuckin’ borders, it just feed It only hungry for the inner shelf, makin’ me bleed [Breakdown] Two minds locked inside one skull, both confused Neither certain who first spoke the order, who used I write my reports on a man named Arctor, cold facts While Arctor stare back from the monitor, ready to snap [Chorus] Scanner darkly The image split and run, fuckin’ gone Scanner darkly Ain’t nobody left to save or become, we done [Outro] When the suit finally come off, ain’t nothin’ left The face beneath already withdrawn, soul theft I was both the hunter and the hunted, same blood And both of us are gone, washed away in the flood Scanner darkly Flow the quiet tears, no sound Scanner darkly I disappeared… ain’t even around