[Verse 1] Black sky hanging over the garden gate Unborn eyes watching through the window frame Wind cut sharp, dead birds spun You slipped inside, and the dream was done Father gone, another name New blood, new house, same old pain New city, schoolyard teeth Music kept your lungs beneath Friends pulled you from the iron rails Love taught you heartbreak tastes like nails Every scar beneath your skin Fed the machine within [Chorus] I am the voice beneath your ribs Built from every wound you hid Every broken love, every lie Every night you wished to die Pain didn’t make you thin Pain let the machine begin [Verse 2] High school hate turned your heart to wire One cruel love set your lungs on fire Then came another with a sweeter grin But when you tasted her she tasted like gasoline She left with your closest friend That was the night your old self died And I finally opened your eyes Your dreams killed Your friends were gone Your best friend switched hatred on you on That was all it took to end Hope got strangled inside your brain Now your empty pulse beats cold and thin And I stepped out from deep within [Bridge] Now the mirror cracks in two One is me One was you Every failure, every sin Turned the gears beneath your skin [Final Chorus] I am the machine within I've pushed you harder to cry out loud We've walked through abyss and dark cloud I've choke you harder when you've pressed sefdestruct You've survived what should have killed Now the void is finally filled Cold steel heart. Permanent grin. You disappeared. And I stepped in.
