Shedding Skin

(Intro) [Verse] I feel the presence underneath Ancient fibers wrapped in me Older versions dead and gone Built in a cage I called my home Scars beneath the surface grin Buried teeth beneath the skin Every fear I locked away Still alive begging for change I hear it breathing, in the dark A second voice, inside my heart Not my enemy Not my friend… Just the passenger I won’t let win [Pre-Chorus] These old muscles That barely move... Pulling free, From what I knew... Every scab I tear away Exposed the truth I couldn’t face [Chorus] I’m shedding skin again Let the shadow pull me in Not to kill what I became Build it in to integrate Every wound, I tried to hide Still survives beneath the light Evolution all the way through... Becoming something new [Break] [Verse] Every truuuuth we buried deep Found its way intoooo my dreams Wasted Daze behind my eyes Warping my sense of time The Rage and the hunger The guilt and the shame Every part of the madness I tried to integrate In the darkness, left to rot Shadow connected to all my thoughts I was taught to search it out Integrate the silence loud Awareness forms as the D N A grows But the deeper down that rabbit hole I go… The more I need to hoooooold [Pre-Chorus] Old patterns start to crack No more of this worn and tired mask When every layer is stripped away It brings the shadow into place [Chorus] I’m shedding skin again Let the shadow pull me in Not to kill what I became Built it in to integrate Every wound, I tried to hide Still survives beneath the light Evolution all the way through... Becoming something new [Bridge] (Music strips back — bass and tom groove, whisper layers underneath) What if the shadow was never the problem? What if the wound was always part of the plan? Every piece analyzed becomes another strand… Every shadow buried, waits to rise again [Final Chorus] I’m shedding skin again Let the shadow pull me in Every fracture, every scar Built the thing we really are Becoming something new Evolution all the way through (Outro) Shedding skin… (Shedding skin) Shedding skin… (Shedding skin) Let it in… (Let it in) Let it in… (Let it in)