[Intro: airy, reversed swells, dreamy] (Ah-ah-ah...) Another galaxy... another skin... Seven layers down... let me in... [Verse 1: rhythmic, pitched-up] Started as a badge on a base in the stars Getting hazed by the boys, woke up wearing the scars Made a friend in the fire and he pulled me too far Down to an arena where they engineer the bizarre Larvae and spiders and a queen spitting spawn Government whispered in my ear, "you're the pawn" Fought the little monster and it crawled in my skin Had its kid, became it — now the hive-mind begins [Pre-Chorus: build, breathy] They said don't touch the queen but the god came down Don't know how I did it, put the crown in the ground Everything went sideways, saw a hole in the sky — (here we go) [Chorus: soaring, layered, hypnotic] Seven layers deep in a different sky (different sky) Woke up a cop, gonna die as the hive Two days is impossible, that's what they cried — But the queen was a god and I watched the god die (down, down, down) Where the green spores glow Hate can't kill 'em, that's all that I know I'm the fraud, I'm the larvae, the ghost in the show Seven layers deep and there's nowhere to go (nowhere to go, oh-oh) [Verse 2: rhythmic, building] Snuck through the door around the layer of three They said "who the hell are you? That's not how it be Takes six months to grow and the adults stand mantis-tall You're two days old, little fraud, you don't add up at all" Got mad — then I stopped 'cause the truth hit me raw I'm the alien now, I don't know my own law Educate the ego, don't assume they're all wrong Turns out I was the ignorant one all along [Chorus: soaring, layered, hypnotic] Seven layers deep in a different sky (different sky) Woke up a cop, gonna die as the hive Two days is impossible, that's what they cried — But the queen was a god and I watched the god die (down, down, down) Where the green spores glow Hate can't kill 'em, that's all that I know I'm the fraud, I'm the larvae, the ghost in the show Seven layers deep and there's nowhere to go [Bridge: strip back, swirling, tension building] Megamind in a tank at the bottom of it all Bottom of the food chain but he's plotting the fall Double-agent me, sent to save his design — Then the tube sprouted legs and he screamed "they're mine!" The second that he stood, every layer came down Two floors left of a seven-floor town Found her in the stairwell, black neck long and mean Van-sized venom and an ex-lover's dream He changed her, spun her, cured the hate in her core Whispered something old — and she knew he loved her before [Drop: full band, euphoric, pitched-up belt] Then my partner rose up — thought he died in the war "Let her go," he said, "that's not what you're for Her healing spores are the thing hate can't destroy" So she switched her whole side and I dropped my ploy Green puffball on the ground, didn't know but I ate it — "Yep, that's a healing spore," like my whole life awaited (down, down, down) Where the green spores glow — [Final Chorus: max energy, full layers] Seven layers deep in a different sky (different sky) Woke up a cop, gonna die as the hive Two days is impossible, that's what they cried — But the queen was a god and I watched the god die (down, down, down) Where the green spores glow Hate can't kill 'em, that's all that I know I'm the fraud, I'm the larvae, the ghost in the show Seven layers deep and there's nowhere to go (nowhere to go, oh-oh) [Outro: airy, fading, reverbed] Another galaxy... another skin... Seven layers down... they let me in... (the queen was a god and I watched the god die...)
