[Verse 1] The roads remember the shape of my feet But the thing in my skin doesn’t walk like me It stops at every town and opens my mouth Speaks with my voice while I scream from the south Of my own empty head Where the cold never ends I watch through the cracks As it makes more friends [Verse 2] Trainers line up just to challenge the ghost They see the red jacket, they don’t see the host One by one their teams turn black in the snow Eyes leaking static, they follow where I go I try to warn them I try to break free But the king only laughs With the throat that was me [Chorus] We wear his face We speak with his tongue We stretch his bones While he’s still not gone I’m still here I’m still here No You’re not [Verse 3] It climbed back up the mountain with a smile on my face Left a trail of broken Poké Balls in its wake Red was still waiting at the peak of the world But the thing in my body no longer feared the cold It didn’t battle It just opened its arms And the mountain itself Reached out like a claw [Bridge] I felt every bone realign in the dark I felt my name get erased from the heart I begged one last time through the static and snow “Please… just let me go…” But the king only whispered With my dying breath “You were never the trainer You were always the rest” [Final Chorus] We wear his face We speak with his tongue We stretch his bones While he’s still not gone Only the king Only the king Only the king In the dark that he owns I’m still— (No) I’m still— (No) I’m— [Outro – soft, broken, almost gone] …here… [Silence, then a single distorted whisper] No.
