Scratch my brain like a record,
Leave it keyed and unplayable -
I needn't play it anyway,
It is not for me to play

Bouncing off my reflection is you,
My poison, my parasite,
As though you reflect me in full,
As though I'm the plotless one

You wedge your knife words
Between the cracks on my skull
And you pry open my bones
And salt my insides with cyanide

You scrape the inside of my skull
Until the pain is deafening,
You press on me til my ribs shatter
And my shoulders cave in

As though standing in a shower of lava,
You burn my skin and my insides off
My tired bones you won't let rest
As long as they are attached to flesh

I walk the tightrope across the abyss
And you cut the chord beneath me,
And as I plummet, I see a face that is mine -
Why did you want me dead?

You've already taken all that could be,
All that was and all that is -
What else can you find to claim for yourself
When I'm nothing but bones before you

I await the day we both shut off,
When you leave me for good,
When I dissolve into void -
When my flesh takes you with itself

As my flesh rots away, you rot with it,
No longer burning it, no longer in power -
This machine we were simmered to nothing,
At long last put to its rightful rest

The melodies you scratch into my skull
Still retain a sliver of resemblance
To a normality you're dying to **** -
I shall hum them to my final breath