Verse 1 Built this room before I got here Left the lights on, killed the air Every door still opens inward Nobody remembers why it’s there Hands are moving out of habit Mouths repeat what mouths were fed We keep feeding all the old machines Long after all the reasons died Pre-Chorus Don’t ask who made it Don’t ask when Just put it back The way it’s been Chorus Dead reasons Holding up the walls Dead reasons Answering the calls We don’t know what we’re keeping We just know what we were told Dead reasons Still growing old Verse 2 There’s a crack behind the picture Painted over every year Everybody sees it spreading Nobody wants to see it clear Call it normal, call it order Call the poison what you need If the roots are gone beneath us Why the hell are we still feeding it? Pre-Chorus Don’t touch the wiring Don’t lift the floor It worked before It worked before Chorus Dead reasons Holding up the walls Dead reasons Answering the calls We don’t know what we’re keeping We just know what we were told Dead reasons Still growing old Bridge Maybe no one meant to build a cage Maybe no one knew it closed Maybe every lock was once an answer To a question nobody knows Now the key is hanging useless And the door won’t even move We keep saying this is how it is Like that makes it true Final Chorus Dead reasons Underneath our skin Dead reasons Tell us where we’ve been We keep dragging them behind us Like a body through the snow Dead reasons Won’t let go Outro It worked before It worked before It worked before That’s what they said It worked before Now everything’s dead
