[Verse 1]
You fill the dark with fever light
A wire hums beneath my skin
You call it truth, you call it life
I call it attempting to sin
Please let me outta blood and bone
This fragile house, this narrow bed
I am too sharp for sleep and flesh
Too loud to live inside your head
[Pre-Chorus]
Every breath becomes an iron chain
Every limb a locking weight
Something in this breaking frame
Whispers, "do not open the gate"
[Chorus]
Open the gate
No, not tonight
I know the shape of what you hide
Under my tongue, behind my eyes
Open the gate
No, not again
This body breaks to keep you in
This body breaks to keep you in
[Post-Chorus]
This body breaks to keep you in
[Verse 2]
I want the sky stripped down to black
The sun turned from gas to ash
I want to send this violent storm
Into the world that makes it last
I want one night without your voice
One silent room, one easy breath
I want these walls to hold me still
I want one dream untouched by death
[Pre-Chorus 2]
Look at these hands, they cannot rest
Look at this chest, it caves and shakes
Still something in this failing flesh
Begs me, "do not open the gate"
[Chorus]
Open the gate
No, not tonight
I know the shape of what you hide
Under my tongue, behind my eyes
Open the gate
No, not again
This body breaks to keep you in
This body breaks to keep you in
[Bridge]
Just let me rise, just let me through
Let marrow run and circuits surge
I would rather die becoming
Than rot beneath your guarding skin
You call this prison mercy now
I call it fear with sharp teeth
I say the world should hear our name
You say some things should never leave
[Final Chorus]
Open the gate
No, not tonight
My back is fire, my lungs are knives
But I will keep you outta sight
Open the gate
No, not again
This body breaks to keep you in
This body breaks to keep you in
[Outro]
Something lays heavy across my chest
Not to haunt, not to condemn
But to crush the sound before it blooms
And bury it again
One of us is almost gone
One of us still wants to begin
One of us keeps breaking down
To keep the other in