Dame - Dame (2020)

 

Dame - Dame Lyrics

1. Ersatz

world unfolds and folds again

the sound itself a memory

a frequency you'll never hear

I hear it not call out to me

world unfolds and folds again

I read it through what I don't see

a place in terms of want and need

I hear it not call out to me

isn't it pathetic

any way you get it

isn't it pathetic

vile and synthetic

2. Mensrea

can't see your own reflection

when your world is full of smoke

but that's the way you like it

until you don't

your empire just crumbled

it's your writing on the wall

and your self deprecation

an example to us all

whatever the transgression

there's no need to repent

you got no bullet

to follow your intent

here's your exoneration

take what you want and go

don't ask too many questions

it's better to not know

3. Cicadas

once the world is quiet

I start to hear the buzz

nothing ever happens

and then everything does

now we've been here long enough

to know just what it's worth

now we've been here long enough to learn

I already know this scene

where you crawl out and in

it's always the same cadence

it's always the same sin

and nature is a brute

so I sit back and let you win

and hum with the cicadas

fall down around my heels

ground into the earth

this time I can bury you

pave over the earth

4. Vacancy

nothing here to hear

just static and dead air

once a holy mess

now an everyday affair

vacancy

dead air that surrounds me

they can see dead air all around me

nothing here to see

gathering of dust

nothing here to say

only if you must

5. Skeleton

we're all secured in for the ride

committed to the lie

I'm a stranger here myself

I can't compete with time

desire doesn't matter

in a way it's all that does

look back into the marrow

to see nothing that it was

draw a question miss the mark

and watch it all decline

I'm a stranger here myself

what do you fear more

6. Bubble Baby

I was born a bubble baby

and I can't be touched

couldn't nourish me either

it just comes back up

I'm gonna live forever trapped in glass

I'm gonna live forever not too much to ask

break the walls down let your germs consume me

just let me rot now I have no immunity

in a quarantine of my own I've made my home

isolation from contagion so pristine and on my own

7. Parlor Games

scratch 'til it shines

a grasping dynasty

kissed by the sun

another golden baby

pick out the prey

it's just a tiny sting

don't overthink

they won't feel a thing

devour the guests

so thankful they came

bow the head

sit and play their parlor games

you know they'd do the same

just clinging to a name

nest of emerald wasps

and then the crowned jewel

pretty parasites

who break their own rules

a chip in the veneer

it's just one little thing

when I condemn

who exactly do I mean