Gearwound - How Long To Fade Away

You take Piece by piece I give Until nothing’s left Strip the wire From the nerve Take the parts You think you deserve I hear myself Inside the walls A broken signal Getting small You wanted everything I was So I became Nothing at all Cut me down To function Cut me down To need There’s something Still moving Underneath The machinery How long To fade away How long Until the shape I made Is just another Stain How long To fade away How much Can disappear Before there’s nothing Left in here Cold hands Clean cut No blood Just rust You found the switch Behind my teeth And turned me off While I could see Now every word Comes back distorted Every thought Half aborted I keep digging Through the static For the thing I used to be Cut me down To function Cut me down To need There’s something Still scratching Underneath The machinery How long To fade away How long Until the shape I made Is just another Stain How long To fade away How much Can disappear Before there’s nothing Left in here To hate You never learned Another word Until the silence Starts to hurt I tried To cauterize The empty space But absence Has a way Of keeping shape I pulled your fingerprints Out of my skin And found another layer Underneath HOW MUCH OF ME DID YOU NEED? HOW MUCH OF ME DID YOU FUCKING NEED? How long To fade away How long Until the shape I made Until pain Is just another name How long To fade away If I tear out Everything you touched Would there be anything Left of me You take Piece by piece I give Until nothing’s left