MYSTer (Paper Crane Crime Funk Rework)

[Intro] A man-shaped absence behind bulletproof glass I trade my reflection for rust and tarnished brass [Verse 1] The doorbell rings like a nerve in a dead tooth She walks in with a paper crane, so now I'm the living proof That some voids are shaped like a father's silhouette I've been a ghost in my own skin since the day we met [Pre-Chorus] Somebody taught this city how to swallow I'm the piece it couldn't keep down [Chorus] I am the splinter under the city's fingernail The unsent letter that never reached the mail I'll carve a hallway through the marrow of the night Not for redemption, not for any holy light But because your laugh is a frequency I can't deny I'll break the world in half just to hear you reply [Verse 2] They keep their sins in offshore containers, I keep mine in my veins I've got a map of every scar, a ledger of the stains She called me "mister" with a smile that cracked my rust Now they've buried her in silence, turned her name to dust I'll be the static in their perfect signal, the flaw in their design A one-man demolition of the borderline [Chorus] I am the splinter under the city's fingernail The unsent letter that never reached the mail I'll carve a hallway through the marrow of the night Not for redemption, not for any holy light But because your laugh is a frequency I can't deny I'll break the world in half just to see you alive [Bridge] Somewhere between the trigger and the breath There's a kingdom of the almost-dead, a covenant with death I signed my name in disappearing ink I'm not the saviour, not the father, not the missing link I'm just a shadow that learned to bleed for someone else's sun A bullet with a memory of where it all begun [Chant] Mis-mis-mister, don't you call me that Mister, mister, I'm not coming back Mis-mis-mister, don't you call me that I'm the door she left open, I'm the crack [Outro] Pawnshop bell, a paper crane, a half-erased goodbye I left my ghost to guard the door while I went off to die