[Verse 1] In the basement, under sterile lights They take you when you disappear tonight Needles hum, and the monitors blink No sound in the room but the shape of your fear They tape your wrist to the stainless board Say your name like a lab report Map your skin, your voice, your eyes Then split the code right out your spine They don’t pray, they file and freeze Clip your breath in the machine White coats move like a school of knives One for the bone, one for the mind And the monkeys scream from the cages below Level six, level seven, nobody knows I saw a twin in the glass unfold Looked like me with a mouth full of cold [Pre-Chorus] Count the steps Don’t count on grace Hear that buzz Right behind the chain If you sleep They rewrite the face If you wake They know your name [Chorus] Down in level seven They make another me Down in level seven From skin and memory (Another me) Down in level seven Don’t let them take your breath Down in level seven They grow you after death [Verse 2] I saw my own eyes in a tray of blue Floating there like they belonged to you Saw my voice in a waveform line Saw my pulse in a jar of light They fed the clone with a hollow grin Watched it learn where my wounds have been Every scar got a matching mark Every joke got a colder spark And the monkeys hit bars with their tiny hands Like they knew the plan before it began One kept staring at the vent in the wall Like something worse was answering all A doctor said, “We can make him new” Then the room went black in a shade of blue I heard my twin say my first name slow From the other side of the pane below [Pre-Chorus] Count the steps Don’t count on grace Hear that buzz Right behind the chain If you sleep They rewrite the face If you wake They know your name [Chorus] Down in level seven They make another me Down in level seven From skin and memory (Another me) Down in level seven Don’t let them take your breath Down in level seven They grow you after death [Bridge] [Half-time] If you hear me Banging in the wall Don’t come closer Don’t answer the call That thing with my eyes That thing with my name It learned my fear And it wants the same [Chorus] Down in level seven They make another me Down in level seven From skin and memory (Another me) Down in level seven Don’t let them take your breath Down in level seven They grow you after death
