[Intro - spoken word half-whispered over static hiss] ((breathy conspiratorial tone like telling a secret to no one)) Six sick syllables slipping sideways something sees you seeing it see [Verse 1] ((rapid-fire staccato enunciation every consonant bitten off clean)) Invisible but only if you blink singing silk strings sickly spinning slinking soft and soundless down the sink sick again but for the drink think I saw it shrink think I saw it sync its skin to zinc and cinnabar and ink six times sinking six strings thinking stitching signals into symbols no one sees me seeing sink [Pre-Chorus] ((slower deliberate each word placed like a stone)) What slips when you grip it what grins when you skip it what sits in the silt of a syllable split [Chorus] ((full chest voice sudden volume shift)) Say it six times slick say it sick and say it quick something silver something slender something stitched into the trick say it simple say it spinning say it sinking say it singing something swallowed something swimming in the space between the blinking [Verse 2] ((back to rapid tongue-twister pace pushing tempo against the beat)) Scissor-shadow scissors silence scissors sitting still in sequence sleepless sentences of sibilance slick syntax seeking seekers sickness isn't in the speaking sickness sits behind the speaker six sick secrets in a spiral slipping signals getting weaker [Bridge] ((half-whispered again intimate close-mic)) Who wears a skin of sound who walks without a step who drinks the distance down and swallows what is left who blinks and finds the blind spot breathing where they slept [Chorus] ((belt it let the room hear you swallowing the syllables)) Say it six times slick say it sick and say it quick something silver something slender something stitched into the trick say it simple say it spinning say it sinking say it singing something swallowed something swimming in the space between the blinking [Verse 3] ((controlled fury precision over pressure building underneath)) Silk spit syntax splitting sphinxes spitting riddles into rinses spinning siphons sipping instances of signals sent through sinkholes since the singing started slipping since the silk strings started dripping since the sickness started sitting pretty at the center grinning Invisible but only if you blink singing silk strings sickly spinning soft and soundless down the sink [Verse] Invisible but only if you blink Sinking soft and soundless down the sink [Bridge] (Sick again, sick again, sick again) (Sick again, sick again, sick again) [Solo] [Verse] Invisible but only if you blink Singing silk strings Sickly spinning Slinking [Bridge] (Sick again, sick again, sick again) (Sick again, sick again, sick again) [Verse] Invisible but only if you blink Sick again But for the drink [Outro] ((decelerating word by word until the last line is barely audible)) (Sick again, sick again, sick again) (Sick again, sick again, sick again) Invisible but only if you blink singing silk strings sickly spinning soft and soundless down the sink (Sick again, sick again, sick again) (Sick again, sick again, sick again) (Sick again, sick again, sick again) (Sick again, sick again, sick again)
