Earth-Born

Verse 1

Lead boots

Sinking in the garden

Soil tastes like metal and salt

Heavy air

Crushing my chest

I pull

I pant

Gravity hates my blood

The atmosphere is a cage

Too much nitrogen

Too much weight

Red dust in my teeth

Doesn't belong here

Nothing here belongs

Chorus

Oxygen thief

That is what they call me

I am Earth-Born

I am Earth-Born

Heavy feet on the pavement

Lungs are burning

Lungs are burning

Lungs are burning

You look at my skin

And see a stranger

Verse 2

Vowels

Sliding like oil

My tongue is too slow

My throat is too dry

Hard stares

Cold eyes

Sharp teeth

They think I am hollow

Think I am brittle

Brittle bones

Brittle heart

I miss the low hills

The thin wind

The quiet canyons

Here it is loud

Here it is thick

Thick water

Thick lies

Chorus

Oxygen thief

That is what they call me

I am Earth-Born

I am Earth-Born

Heavy feet on the pavement

Lungs are burning

Lungs are burning

Lungs are burning

You look at my skin

And see a stranger

Bridge

Walk slow

Talk slow

Die slow

Pressure on my spine

Pressure on my mind

Pressure on my soul

You claim the sun

You claim the dirt

You claim the sky

But I am falling up

Falling up

Falling up

Chorus

Oxygen thief

That is what they call me

I am Earth-Born

I am Earth-Born

Heavy feet on the pavement

Lungs are burning

Lungs are burning

Lungs are burning

You look at my skin

And see a stranger

Outro

Red eyes

Blue world

Wrong air

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

I can't breathe

Earth-Born

Buried alive

In the open air

Earth-Born

Earth-Born

Earth-Born