[Heavy Breathing] [Intro] Lock the door, pull the curtain shut. Tell me this is what I need. Lay me down beneath your instruments, let devotion make me bleed. [Verse 1] Your gloved hand rests against my chest, a measured touch, a quiet test. You trace the places you'll explore, ask what it is I'm trembling for. The sedative comes on so slow, I fight it just to watch you go. I want to feel each careful part, the first cut aimed toward my heart. [Pre-Chorus] Count backward, darling, count from ten. Promise you'll put me back again. I know that promise is a lie, but it sounds sweeter when you try. [Chorus] Open me carefully, open me wide, find every secret I kept stitched inside. Pull me apart till there's nothing concealed, pick at the parts that were never meant healed. Alter my chemistry, harvest my pain, carve your initials down each vein. Call me your favorite beautiful mistake, take what you need, then take what you take. [Verse 2] Your breath comes warm against my ear, your scalpel answers every fear. You press your fingers past my skin like you've always lived somewhere within. Cut out whatever makes me doubt, every stubborn instinct, out. Replace my will with something new, some better organ built for you. The monitor picks up its pace; you watch the panic in my face, then stroke my cheek and softly swear that losing me means that you care. [Pre-Chorus] Count backward, darling, count from ten. I'll let you ruin me again. No anesthesia, no disguise, I want to watch with open eyes. [Chorus] Open me carefully, open me wide, find every secret I kept stitched inside. Pull me apart till there's nothing concealed, pick at the parts that were never meant healed. Alter my chemistry, harvest my pain, carve your initials down each vein. Call me your favorite beautiful mistake, take what you need, then take what you take. [Post-Chorus] Make me useful. Make me yours. Leave me open. Lock the doors. Make me perfect. Make me stay. Take the person I was away. [Bridge] Keep my heart there, beating in your palm, tell me the shaking's perfectly calm. Measure my longing, label each piece, promise the cutting will bring me release. Thread the damage, pull it tight, shape me to fit your appetite. Leave your tools where my trust used to be, no one's ever gotten that close to me. I signed my name. I chose the bed. I heard the warnings and went ahead. So peel me open, patient, slow. Find where I end, then never let me know. [Final Chorus] Open me carefully, open me wide, make yourself at home somewhere inside. Pull me apart till I can't defend where you start and where I should've ended. Alter my chemistry, harvest my pain, feed your devotion through every vein. Call me your favorite beautiful mistake, take what you need, then take what you take. [Outro] Leave every suture a little undone. Tell me the procedure has only begun. Keep me alive for whatever comes next, your willing patient, your favorite test. Make me useful. Make me yours. Leave me open. Lock the doors.
