[Intro – Mad Man Rant] They moved the hallway three inches left today I measured it with a spoon, I know the truth The pigeons wear my landlord’s fingerprints And every clock is chewing on the afternoon Don’t touch that door—it remembers my name I fed the sink a secret, now it’s humming in code Look, look, the ceiling has opened its eye I’m perfectly fine, I’m perfectly—no [Verse 1 – The Lunatic] I woke where the ceiling folded into seven rooms Each one held a version of me with different shoes Tall figures made of angles stepped through the wall Their faces had no faces, still they knew it all One raised a hand and every color split in two A staircase grew from yesterday and carried me through I jumped from one tomorrow to another yesterday My fingerprints were older every time I changed the frame They showed me worlds stacked underneath the floor A thousand little heavens with a thousand little doors I landed in my kitchen, but the window faced the sea The entities were waiting where my missing shadow used to be [Hook – Evil / Gibberish] Jump now, jump now, let the thin world bend Every door is opening where the last one ends Kra-ka, vesh-vosh, many skies collide Hee-ya, nah-nah—something crossed inside Jump now, jump now, don’t blink, don’t breathe There’s a second little life beneath your sleeve Grah-grah, zula-zum, every world in tune I’m the guest in your head and I’m coming through soon [Verse 2 – The Extraterrestrial Revelation] They found me by the laundromat beneath a violet rain Their ship was quiet as a thought and wider than a train Three extraterrestrials wore the faces of the night They opened up their hands and poured the universe in light They told me why the planets turn, why grief can learn to grow Why every choice becomes a road the living never know They named the first beginning and the final shape of time Then folded all the answers into one impossible line I saw the map of every mind, the language under bone The reason every lonely heart believes it is alone They said, “You are not broken; you are seeing through the seam” Then gave me all the knowledge and erased the word “dream” I tried to hold infinity; it rattled in my teeth They left me with a silver mark and vanished underneath [Hook – Evil / Gibberish] Jump now, jump now, let the thin world bend Every door is opening where the last one ends Kra-ka, vesh-vosh, many skies collide Hee-ya, nah-nah—something crossed inside Jump now, jump now, don’t blink, don’t breathe There’s a second little life beneath your sleeve Grah-grah, zula-zum, every world in tune I’m the guest in your head and I’m coming through soon [Bridge – Backwards Speaking / Strange Noises] [Backwards vocal texture: “I was here before you knew my name”] The spoon says run, the floor says stay A dead man’s ringtone starts the day Mmm—ka—rrr, the window coughs I hear the wires laughing when the signal drops [Verse 3 – The Lunatic Explains] I went downtown with diagrams pinned across my coat A shoebox full of galaxies and a message in my throat I told the woman at the bus stop, “Your world is one of many” She asked me for the weather and I said, “There are plenty” I drew the alien alphabet on butcher paper white Explained how every ending is another room of light The teacher called security, the children called me strange A man threw half a sandwich and demanded I explain I said, “We are the visitors, the sidewalk is alive Your childhood has a duplicate that never learned to die” They filmed me on their phones, then laughed beside the store I watched their faces flicker into faces from before So I begged them, “Please listen, I have seen behind the frame” They wrote my name in marker underneath the word insane [Final Hook – Evil / Gibberish] Jump now, jump now, let the thin world bend Every door is opening where the last one ends Kra-ka, vesh-vosh, many skies collide Hee-ya, nah-nah—something crossed inside Jump now, jump now, don’t blink, don’t breathe There’s a second little life beneath your sleeve Grah-grah, zula-zum, every world in tune I’m the guest in your head and I’m coming through soon [Outro – Rant Fading] They moved the hallway back. No—wait. That’s worse. That’s much worse.
