[Verse 1] The technician left the room cold The basement door is swinging off the frame The bottles on the counter look like headstones Etched with every version of my name I used to think the monster was a separate thing A ghost I could just poison out of spite But the smoke has cleared and left a mirror And the sun is being ungenerous tonight And I am counting up the wreckage on the floorboards Sorting out the damage from the design There's no one left to blame for the extraction The ruin that you see is entirely mine The appraisal of a fractured vessel The choir where the chaos used to grow I am taking inventory of the shadow And letting all the false prophets go [Verse 2] The wilderness is creeping through the window The plane is silent waiting for a sound I tried to make an altar out of ashes But the ash just blew across the dirty ground No more self medicating for the symptoms No more hiding infections in the dark Just a heavy bleeding piece of iron Waiting for a brand new kind of spark And I am counting up the wreckage on the floorboards Sorting out the damage from the design There's no one left to blame for the extraction The ruin that you see is entirely mine The appraisal of a fractured vessel The choir where the chaos used to grow I am taking inventory of the shadow And letting all the false prophets go [Bridge] It doesn't hurt less because it's quiet It doesn't hurt less because it's done The needle's out The vein is cold And I am staring directly at the sun [Chorus] I am staring directly at the sun Make it blind me Make it burn me [Outro] Shadow doesn't scratch anymore It just sits in the corner keeping time I don't want a broken slave I don't do the clay we made I don't free a missing piece Let the count begin
