Say My Name

Intro

(soft girls) ah-ah, ah-ah, ah

(soft girls) come closer, come closer, come closer

(whispered) keep the light low, keep the light low

Verse

I walk in with a coffin grin, tux and a grin of coal, yeah

Tell the ledger all my sins, signatures written in cold, yeah

Silhouette on the pavement, palate tasting iron tones, huh

I bargain with the aftermath, collect the bones of my console, uh

Multiple syllable missiles, I sizzle invincible vigils

Syllable scissors split syllogisms, cut a villain in intervals

My sentence — a sentence — indefinite, didactic, diabolic

I spit the syllables thick, cinematic, acidic, symbolic

Laced up, case shut, reaper posture in black leather

I map cuts, clap cuts, clap back, I don't ask whether

Catacomb cadence, I parade through your coin-operated fears

I trade truths for roped rooms and rage that we engineer

Clockwork, lockwork, I knock doors off hinges — (knock, knock)

I shock courts and I stock wars, I'm a prophet with no cuffs

Infrared in my iris, I write lists of the lost, yeah

I recite this like scripture — convict the chorus, exhaust, yeah

Under glass like a relic, I reject the rescue plans

I inspect every false friend with a scalpel in hand

My tongue is a verdict, verbose, voracious in venom

I torrent the quiet — clarify chaos — call it a covenant

I fold maps into napkins that I use to sign names

I carve stamps in the dark to memorialize flames

The underground listens when I mention the margin of doom

I portion the poison like perfume and bottle the room

I pivot, prolific, prolific with precincts that shiver

I live in the river of rifts — deliver the shiver, deliver

Pre-chorus

(girl voice 1) breathe slow, breathe low, (breathe, breathe)

(girl voice 2) let the hush sink, let the hush sink, (hush, hush)

(girl voice 1) fold the night, fold the night, (fold it)

(girl voices together) come closer, come closer, come closer

Chorus

(girls) say my name, say my name, say my name (say it)

(say my name) say my name, say my name, say my name (say it)

I am the rumor in the walls, I am the tally in the rain

I am the rumor in the walls, I am the tally in the rain

(girls ad-libs) oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh (oh)

(girls) say my name, say my name, say my name (say it)

(say my name) say my name, say my name, say my name (say it)

I am the rumor in the walls, I am the tally in the rain

I am the rumor in the walls, I am the tally in the rain

Verse

I calibrate calamity, catalog calamities like clothes

Tailor torment into tuxedos, velvet ropes for the phantoms I chose

I promenade on the perimeter, predators praying at pews

I orchestrate obstacles, obstacle course of the bruise

Synonym for menace, I write manuscripts in Morse

My metaphors are munitions, my metaphors are doors

Open them, open them, open and lead to a ledger of names

Where payments are pennies and patience combusts into flames

I spit trilogies of trouble,