I Tore my heart out to feel its own beat

[Verse 1] "Waking up mid-fall, still in this skin... A Porcelain mask....cracks seeping from within Echoing chambers calling from beneath wearing such pain upon me like a thorny wreath...." [Pre-chorus] "If nothing hurts, then nothing can be real So I gave myself something I could feel" [chorus] "I tore my heart out to feel its own beat... Not for pain, just proof it was real. Held it like a pulsing watch, Counting the seconds for something to feel." [Verse 2] "Flayed bare of my flaws, stripped for all to see...(All to see...) Black stained glass blurs the view of me...(View of me..) Cut through the ribcage, watched it weep— Emotional noise drowns me to sleep." [Bridge] "The blood runs but I stay in line praying for some feeling this time another way out, some solace for me listening to this silence, it's deafening There's a peace in the absence of feeling but I still press my fingers to the wound..." [Final chorus] "I tore my heart out to feel its own beat... But that tick just echoes back to me Held it like a pulsing watch waiting for truth, or at least a sound But nothing comes... nothing comes.." [Outro] "Still listening... still listening... still-...."