If there's a chemical in my brain
That doesn't bite
I'm gonna find it on my time
And god damn what you're given
If there's no flickering torches
Lighting up your face
I'm gonna cave
I'm gonna dig up a good grave
I'm gonna put out the nice plates

I built a hall with no doors
It's all ceilings and floors
I tried to burn it down twice
You should've seen me in that expiring light
I felt the consciousness die outright
And now you're in the grip of a hard night
It's alright

But memory made friends with me
And dressed me in catastrophe
And hopefully you'll never see
I'm at my best whеn I am asleep

If there's no quickening in your hеart
When you take flight
Stop holding out for the real price
Keep the grief that you're given
If there's some elegy fighting
To escape your throat
I'll keep it slow
I'll count the arteries up close
Try not to bleed on the nice prose
I built a hall with no doors
It's all ceilings and floors
I watched it burn out of spite
I should've held onto that expiring light
Before the consonants died outright
Now you went and traded a straight spine
For a good sign

But memory made friends with me
And dressed me in catastrophe
And hopefully you'll never see
I'm at my best when I am asleep

So the reeds start growing
You start cutting them down
And the reeds keep growing
You keep cutting them down
Now the reeds are still growing
You're still cutting them down
So when the reeds stop growing
Who the hell are you now?

You know the reeds start growing
You start cutting them down
And then the reeds keep growing
You keep cutting them down
So the reeds hate growing
And you hate cutting them down
But when the reeds stop growing
Who the hell are you now?
And this is how you die well
You make a pact with yourself
You try to grieve the hard nights
And then you take all of that expiring light
Melt it down, forge a knife, kill time
Then say you put up a good fight
But that's life

'Cause memory made friends with me
Then threw me from the balcony
And pity that you didn't see
I did my best when I was asleep

But you called my bet
And we watched our bloodstream stop