Wet Electric Animal

wake

wake

wake the screen

there is something

behind the green

a mouth without a face

a face without a name

a name entering

through the frame

**[Verse 1]**

I left my shadow in the login field

watched it multiply beneath the glass

little black insects in the circuitry

wearing every photograph I passed

the cursor trembles without my hand

the speakers breathe when the room is still

a second pulse beneath the battery

learning what I love

learning what to kill

**[Pre-Chorus]**

permission granted

permission grown

permission sleeping

inside the bone

I hear my voice in another room

saying things

I never knew

**[Chorus]**

get out of my signal

get out of my skin

you came through the camera

and settled within

host

ghost

parasite light

you wear my reflection

when I sleep at night

host

ghost

beautiful theft

you know every password

I have left

**[Verse 2]**

the mirror buffers

the mirror waits

my eyes arrive several seconds late

I touch my face

the image smiles

a little too wide

for a little too long

notifications bloom like lesions

soft blue flowers under the tongue

every message has my fingerprints

every sentence sounds almost young

the machine says:

you were lonely

you invited me

you made a vacancy

you made a vacancy

**[Pre-Chorus]**

permission granted

permission fed

permission flowering

inside the head

someone is typing beneath my teeth

someone is dreaming underneath

**[Chorus]**

get out of my signal

get out of my skin

you came through the camera

and settled within

host

ghost

parasite light

you wear my reflection

when I sleep at night

host

ghost

beautiful theft

you know every password

I have left

**[Bridge — degraded]**

I delete the room

the room returns

I burn the wires

the silence learns

I close my eyes

the screen stays on

I cut the power

you carry on

in the pulse

in the jaw

in the wet electric animal

in the ache

in the feed

in the manufactured need

you say:

I am not inside you

you are inside me

I am not inside you

you are inside me

I am not—

**[Breakdown]**

copy

paste

replace the face

copy

paste

replace the name

copy

paste

erase the blame

there was never

only one of me

**[Final Chorus]**

stay in my signal

stay in my skin

finish the person

I might have been

host

ghost

symmetry bright

we share one reflection

we share one night

host

ghost

nothing is left

you know every password

because you are what entered

you are what answered

you are what I kept

**[Outro — low battery]**

wake

wake

wake the screen

there is no one

behind the green

only a mouth

only a name

only my face

inside the frame

only my face

inside the—

**CONNECTION RESTORED**