Phantom Knocking

Intro

Cold room

Hollow bed

Reaching out

For what ain't there

Verse 1

I lost a piece of me in that dark alley night

Blade came down quick now the left arm's gone

Dreams still crawl through these fingers that don't exist

Every morning I wake up and my hand still itches

Skin remembers what the bone forgot

Memory cut deeper than the scar that I got

I trace the ghost outline on the sheet

Phantom limb still screaming underneath

Pre-Chorus

I feel it burn

I feel it twitch

But nothing's there

And nothing gives

Chorus

Phantom pain come crawling down my spine

Telling me what's missing still feels fine

I reach for what ain't there anymore

Phantom pain keep knocking at my door

At my door

At my door

Post-Chorus

Can't feel it

Can't feel it

Can't feel it gone

Can't feel it

Can't feel it

Can't feel it gone

Verse 2

Neighbors talk about me like I'm broken glass

Shaking fists at nothing in the empty mass

Doctor says it's neural pathways misfiring wrong

But the ache that howls at 3 AM is way too strong

I used to throw that jab blindfolded in the ring

Now I swing at shadows and the shadow wins

Got a phantom ego and a phantom name

Everybody sees the wound nobody feels the flame

Pre-Chorus

I feel it burn

I feel it twitch

But nothing's there

And nothing gives

Chorus

Phantom pain come crawling down my spine

Telling me what's missing still feels fine

I reach for what ain't there anymore

Phantom pain keep knocking at my door

At my door

At my door

Bridge

Numb the nerve

Numb the brain

Ain't no pill to kill the strain

Cut it off

Buried deep

Still the fingers curl and creep

Numb the nerve

Numb the brain

Every ghost come back again

Verse 3

I see her face in the flicker of the neon sign

She held me down when the fever took my mind

She left before the stitches even dried

Now her ghost and my ghost share the same bedside

I ain't crying out for pity on these bloody knees

Just kneel in the wreckage saying please

Let the nerve die slow

Let the memory fade

But the phantom keeps the grave it made

Pre-Chorus

I feel it burn

I feel it twitch

But nothing's there

And nothing gives

Chorus

Phantom pain come crawling down my spine

Telling me what's missing still feels fine

I reach for what ain't there anymore

Phantom pain keep knocking at my door

At my door

At my door

Post-Chorus

Can't feel it

Can't feel it

Can't feel it gone

Can't feel it

Can't feel it

Can't feel it gone

Outro

Phantom

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Phantom pain

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Phantom pain