Phantom Flesh (Extended 2)

Intro

Fluorescent pain burning white through my skull

Laughs in the background, echo and dull

They say think positive, mind over flesh

But all that I feel is a panic-pressed mesh

Verse 0

Woke up with a scream caught under my tongue

Heartbeat stutters to a neon drum

Hands scraping data straight out my dreams

They see circuits, but I wanna scream

Cold jokes tossed like scalpels in air

You lose your shell, and nobody cares

Body’s a memory, nerves pulling thin

Science or circus, you never fit in

Verse 1

Woke up strapped down, white rooms spinning slow

Broken glass memory, static in my flow

Doctors in circles, eyes wide with intent

Probing my mind for data they can’t invent

Saw my own fingers twitch on the tray

Realized my body’s somewhere far away

Fighting to hold on to everything I know

But I’m slipping through wires, I can’t say no

Chorus

I had a dream they cracked my skull

Lab coats scraping, wires crawl

A mind is power, they called my name

But they laugh as I lose my frame

Post-Chorus

Save me, haunt me, is it real or pretend

Hey hey, hack my brain again

Verse 2

You wanna peek inside, now isn’t that strange

Pull apart my thoughts, run tests on my pain

Say I got potential stored deep in my veins

But all I feel is phantom flesh, screaming in chains

Pre-Chorus

You can help my head play tricks,

Stack up games or spin me sick

Mix my pain in streams and tones

But fear kicks in, I’m all alone

Chorus

I had a dream they cracked my skull

Lab coats scraping, wires crawl

A mind is power, they called my name

But they laugh as I lose my frame

Post-Chorus

Save me, haunt me, is it real or pretend

Hey hey, hack my brain again

Verse 3

Metal hands tap codes I can’t decipher

Plastic mouth laughs loud from the monitor

Scraps of me scattered like static on the floor

Their cold machine mercy just asking for more

My mind’s on replay, nothing left to feel

Synthetic comfort, the pain is real

Wish I could wake up and leave this behind

But it loops and it loops, deep in my mind

Pre-Chorus

You could jack in, wire up, try to repair

But you can’t patch terror fed through the air

Thoughts glitching wild, running off track

Try to escape but I keep coming back

Chorus

I had a dream they cracked my skull

Lab coats scraping, wires crawl

A mind is power, they called my name

But they laugh as I lose my frame

Post-Chorus

Save me, haunt me, is it real or pretend

Hey hey, hack my brain again

Bridge

Static in the silence, my thoughts out of phase

Lab rats snicker, I'm just a case

Numbers for memories, surgery for laughs

My flesh in a jar, my soul torn in half

Verse 4

You scan me, prod me, tell me it’s for science

But every question lands like defiance

Maybe I’d play, jam pixelated tunes

But dread eats logic in digital rooms

Try to upgrade what you can’t replace

Chased by a scream with no voice, no face

Glitched out, spinning in circuits so tight

Each panic a program that loops through the night

Chorus

I had a dream they cracked my skull

Lab coats scraping, wires crawl

A mind is power, they called my name

But they laugh as I lose my frame

Post-Chorus

Save me, haunt me, is it real or pretend

Hey hey, hack my brain again