Clockwork Hive

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[Intro]
[Low drone, feedback swell]
Teeth in the ticking wall
Fluorescent buzzing sky
I wake to the same sharp wires
Knotted in my mind

[Verse 1]
Crowded room
I’m locked behind my eyes
Every voice
Like broken glass inside
Hands over ears
Yet every whisper shouts
I try to speak
The wrong words stumble out

[Chorus]
I walk this hell of scattered fire
Thoughts colliding in a cage
Every road is barbed with questions
Every second rusts to rage
This is my life, this clockwork hive
Needles dancing in my head
I burn in place, I never die
Just wide awake among the dead

[Verse 2]
Lists on the floor
Plans pinned into the wall
I chase one line
And drop a thousand more
The simplest step
A mountain I can’t climb
I dig through dust
And still I lose the time

[Chorus]
I walk this hell of scattered fire
Thoughts colliding in a cage
Every road is barbed with questions
Every second rusts to rage
This is my life, this clockwork hive
Needles dancing in my head
I burn in place, I never die
Just wide awake among the dead

[Bridge]
Two broken codes
Engraved into my skull (hey!)
Too loud, too slow
Too sharp, too dull
I am the glitch
In every flawless plan
I am the storm
That lives inside one man

[Chorus]
I walk this hell of scattered fire
Thoughts colliding in a cage
Every road is barbed with questions
Every second rusts to rage
This is my life, this clockwork hive
Needles dancing in my head
I burn in place, I never die
Still wide awake among the dead

[Outro]
[Tempo drags, guitars ring out]
Teeth in the ticking wall
Bite down, bite down
I was born in this furnace
And it never powers down