Don't Look at Me

Intro

Verse 1

Heavy. It’s heavy.

Hanging over my head like a mountain of lead, and I’m losing my breath in the sediment.

Yeah, it’s evident.

Crushing my chest till I’m gasping for air, but the air is a vacuum, I’m barely even there.

Pick at the pieces, I’m picking the scabs of the habits I’ve had since a kid in the lab.

Run from the shadows? The shadows are me.

I’m the lock, I’m the cage, I’m the prisoner’s plea.

Chorus

Don’t look at me like that!

Stop looking at me like you know what I’m feeling, you don’t know the half!

I am not the person you put on a pedestal, I am the version that’s falling apart in the back!

Broken, fallen, tired of the wire,

I’m losing my grip while I’m fueling the fire!

Yeah, I’m losing my grip on the edge of the wire!

Post-Chorus

Oh, you wanted the glow?

But all that I have is the letting it go.

Yeah, I’m letting it go.

Verse 2

Staring at the wall, yeah, I built it myself—brick by brick, put my heart on a shelf.

You think you see me? You’re seeing the mask.

Asking me "How are you?"—don't even ask.

Old habits are haunting, they’re ghosts in the kitchen, they’re taunting my vision, they’re making decisions!

I’m trapped in a rhythm of "Me versus Me,"

"Free" is a word that I don’t even read!

I don’t know. I don’t know!

The more that I learn is the less that I show!

Chorus

Don’t look at me like that!

Stop looking at me like you know what I’m feeling, you don’t know the half!

I am not the person you put on a pedestal, I am the version that’s falling apart in the back!

Broken, fallen, tired of the wire,

I’m losing my grip while I’m fueling the fire!

Yeah, I’m losing my grip on the edge of the wire!

Post-Chorus

Oh, you wanted the glow?

But all that I have is the letting it go.

Yeah, I’m letting it go.

Bridge

Maybe I’m the problem, maybe I’m the cure,

Maybe I’m the monster that I’m trying to endure!

Screaming at the ceiling till my lungs start to fail,

I’m the hammer, I’m the wood, I’m the head of the nail!

Cut the ties! (Cut 'em!)

Burn the lies! (Burn 'em!)

Watch it rise until the ashes hit the sky—now tell me what you see when you look in my eyes!

Chorus

Don’t look at me like that!

Stop looking at me like you know what I’m feeling, you don’t know the half!

I am not the person you put on a pedestal, I am the version that’s falling apart in the back!

Broken, fallen, tired of the wire,

I’m losing my grip while I’m fueling the fire!

Yeah, I’m losing my grip on the edge of the wire!

Outro

Hanging by a thread.

Still living in my head.

I told you...

Silence.