From the recording Carbon Halo
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Rust on the window
Ash in my lungs
Name on a clipboard
Barcode on my tongue
Clock on the ceiling
Ticks like a gun
Praying to deadlines
That never come
[Chorus]
Cut off my carbon halo (hey!)
Make me feel the weight I drag
I’ve been living like a shadow
Stitched to someone else’s flag
Scream through the static of my halo
Burn it till the sky turns black
If I’m nothing but a halo
I’m never getting myself back
[Verse 2]
Screen in my pocket
Tells me I’m fine
Bleeding in metrics
All in a line
Teeth on the grindstone
Dreams in a jar
Sold you my insides
To be a star
[Chorus]
Cut off my carbon halo
Make me feel the weight I drag
I’ve been living like a shadow
Stitched to someone else’s flag
Scream through the static of my halo
Burn it till the sky turns black
If I’m nothing but a halo
I’m never getting myself back
[Bridge]
[Processed piano and vocal, crushed and distant]
If this is salvation
Why do I choke?
If I am forgiven
Why am I broke?
Strip me to silence
Take all I own
Leave me the fracture
That’s mine alone
[Chorus]
Cut off my carbon halo (oh!)
Make me feel the weight I drag
I’ve been living like a shadow
Stitched to someone else’s flag
Scream through the static of my halo
Burn it till the sky turns black
If I’m nothing but a halo
Then watch me crack
Watch me crack
Watch me take myself back