[Verse 1]

I took the alley after midnight

Past the shuttered shops and bins

The same route home, the same dull glow

The same old city skin

Then something in the light went narrow

Something in the brickwork curled

And somewhere between one step and the next

I slipped outta the world

[Verse 2]

Now everything is almost normal

Every bus stop, lamp, and sign

But all the angles feel defective

Like this place was nevеr mine

The windows shine with distant wеather

The pavements sweat a borrowed sheen

And every moving thing that nears me

Hits with all the weight of a machine

[Chorus]

Outta phase

Outta line

The city stays

But not for mine

And every ordinary thing

Turns brutal when it moves

I slipped outta the world one night

And now the world refuses

[Verse 3]

I don't get hungry

I don't get tired

I don't sleep and I don't change

Like something caught me in the transfer

And fixed me there in one dead frame

A snapshot body

Held in static

Coat and breath and bitten lip

A copied shape that can't go forward

Can't go back and can't let slip

[Verse 4]

A sparrow dropping from a wire

Could split my shoulder from the bone

A burst of rain could strip me thin

So I wait storms out alone

I watch the forecast like a killer

I keep to awnings, under eaves

Because heavy weather here falls harder

Like the sky wants me in pieces

[Chorus]

Outta phase

Outta line

The city stays

But not for mine

And every ordinary thing

Turns brutal when it moves

I slipped outta the world one night

And now the world refuses

[Bridge]

The very worst part isn't bleeding

It's the way things disarrange

As though my body is a rumour

Matter's free to rearrange

A squirrel leapt across the railing

Snagged my hand and kept on going

And all at once it wasn't with me

It was inside that creature moving

It ran off dumb and warm and living

Never knowing what it stole

And I could feel my fingers knocking

At the small walls of its soul

[Breakdown]

I felt fur brush

I felt branch shake

I felt its lungs pull in the dark

I felt my own lost hand go foreign

Still alive and still apart

[Verse 5]

No one sees me

Through the crossing

Through the glass of cafe doors

They drink their coffee

Catch the late train

Walk the same wet grocery floors

And I stand back from all that motion

From the harmless and the mild

Because a paper cup can break me

Because a bicycle can kill

[Pre-Chorus]

Because the world is full of impact

Full of little things in flight

And every one becomes a weapon

When you fall between the lights

[Chorus]

Outta phase

Outta line

The city stays

But not for mine

And every ordinary thing

Turns brutal when it moves

I slipped outta the world one night

And now the world refuses

[Outro]

Outta phase

Outta phase

Outta reach

Beneath the lamps

Beside the street

I am the thing that didn't cross

The thing the dark misplaced

Still standing in the alleyway

Forever outta phase