[Verse 1: JT Cavey]

Shed your skin, days on years

Punished by pressured time

When underneath, you're balancing

All this hate and selfless misconception

What once was full is just the husk

Of a deceived creature of habits

Black ink can't pierce this deep

By your side, I watched the birds of prey

Bind the skies and hold in wait

We cannot mend what is sealed by fate

No future, contentment with complacency

Absorbing disappointment, bite the hand that feeds

I gave up everything to make you feel complete

Drenched in cold sweat from lost comfort of safety

You resonate with hatred

[Pre-Chorus: Jesse Cash]

My pulse is racing in my chest

I lie awake to imagine pathways of escape as they disappear

[Chorus: Jesse Cash & JT Cavey]

All these words mean nothing if we fall face first (if we fall face first)

From running away from something that we saw coming

[Verse 2: JT Cavey]

Embrace this sunset as cloak and dagger for you to cower

Hidden by shadows, with filthy nails of gripping cowards

Shed your skin

Refuse to be loved by yourself to grow free from villainous vines Refuse love from anyone else to sever ties that have grown intertwined

[Pre-Chorus: Jesse Cash & JT Cavey]

My failing mind has been oppressed

And I lie awake to embrace a pathway of escape

Disappear without a trace

[Chorus: Jesse Cash & JT Cavey]

All these words mean nothing if we fall face first (if we fall face first)

From running away from something that we saw coming

[Bridge: Jesse Cash & JT Cavey, Both]

Rise through the wake

Sliding through the pulse of the ocean tide

Rise through the wake

Sliding through the pulse of the ocean tide

Shed your skin, shed your skin

I've always known what's underneath

Rise through the wake or be the crashing waves

[Interlude: Jesse Cash]

Rise through the wake

Sliding through the pulse of the ocean tide

Rise through the wake

Slide

[Outro: JT Cavey]

Refuse to be loved by yourself to grow free from villainous vines

Refuse love from anyone else to sever ties that have grown intertwined