[Intro] [(Whispered, breathing, distant voices)] (Breathe...) It's underneath... It's underneath the skin... Don't scratch... Feed it... [Verse 1] Something black is swimming slowly Through the rivers in my veins Every heartbeat sounds like thunder Calling softly to my name I can feel my skin corroding Every pore exhales decay Every sin becomes a parasite That smiles while it prays It whispers, "Open..." It hisses, "Don't fight..." Now the mirror isn't mine... [Pre-Chorus] Pull... Stretch... Split... Breathe... The fever knows my language. [Chorus] The infection... Lives inside my breathing... Gnawing at the wires Where the broken angels sleep. The infection... Laughs beneath my heartbeat... Turning every holy memory Into hungry teeth. It isn't killing me... It's becoming me. [Verse 2] Darkness swims beneath the marrow Coiling tighter every day Wrapping every thought in venom Until nothing stays the same I taste rust upon my tongue now Hear the pulse beneath the floor Every shadow grows a heartbeat Begging me to want it more Skin remembers every failure. Bones remember every lie. Every nerve becomes an altar Where another piece must die. [Bridge] [(Hypnotic, escalating)] Breathe... Breathe... Breathe... It's climbing... Breathe... It's feeding... Breathe... It's learning... Breathe... It's wearing my face... (Breathe...) [Breakdown] I opened every locked cathedral Just to let the darkness feed. I baptized every wound with poison Now the poison calls me *seed.* The veins ignite. The lungs collapse. The eyes eclipse. The mind unwraps. There is no cure... There was never... Only hunger. [Final Chorus] The infection... Now controls the breathing... Every frantic heartbeat Becomes another mouth to feed. The infection... Floods the nervous system... Skin dissolves in quiet worship, Faith erased by decomposition. No more fighting. No more host. Only pulse... Only fever... Only... INFECTION. [Outro] [(Heavy breathing, fading whispers)] It's underneath... It's underneath... Still breathing... Still feeding... Still... alive...
