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Description
"Layers"

By the snake, the rooster lay asphyxiated
The ozone layers, faded
Snake, you're my charmer, my wish
But your venom chipped away the layers, degraded
For the viper's shedding skin became my blanket
With his warning rattle, I ignored
And I despise that
I've always choked on the shattered glass before I break it
I live by the skin of my teeth, but there's one thing I horde
That's your words
I hung onto every word you spoke
And I accepted your flaws
So now I accept the fact that I'm going to die as your prey
Between your true colors that act as a snake's jaws
Now it's time to choke...
Choke me gently

Sing me to sleep, sweet viper, sing me to sleep
Even if you're a part of my imagination
Just give me this one last taste and sensation
I don't care anymore, and someday, I'll forget about you
Maybe not anytime soon
But I'll give you my layers
Because I thought I heard your prayers
Because my layers were also you
Your layers were mine too
You can't erase what's been done
You haven't won
Cause I was under your skin
I kept you deep within
It was never a waste, and it never will be
You'll see
You're my layers you chipped away
I was your layer and I was there
I was there and I heard you pray

Digging past layers to see exactly
What cancer's inside you
I'm going to fall, I'm going to find
A darkness, I never knew
I don't know what, how or when
But when I die by your hands
I know I'll find a way to be born again
When you shed your layers,
You'll take someone else for your new skin
And when you're in my sight, When you forget your core
I will always forget how to breathe in
Because I always knew you'd be my own disease
Another place in time, another rhyme
I have to find a way, I beg, just sever this layer, please
Do you know what you've done
Putting napalm between my skin and now I'm on one knee
You can look through my tattered veil and realize
The layer you shed was apart of me

All of these scabs from you ripping yourself away from me
It doesn't work, it only brings me agony
Don't you try to make me forget about you this soon
I'm not ready to let you go
Not this time
Just so you know
I was the one who would've waited
For you to come out of your cocoon
I was the one who would've stayed
Even if you were afraid of the monsoon

Sing me to sleep, sweet viper, sing me to sleep
Even if you're a part of my imagination
Just give me this one last taste and sensation
I don't care anymore, and someday, I'll forget about you
Maybe not anytime soon
But I'll give you my layers
Because I thought I heard your prayers
Because my layers were also you
Your layers were mine too
You can't erase what's been done
You haven't won
Cause I was under your skin
I kept you deep within
It was never a waste, and it never will be
You'll see
You're my layers you chipped away
I was your layer and I was there
I was there and I heard you pray

I heard you say my name...

Change is not always for the better
But surface to the top of the water so deep
And this one secret is the one I shall keep
Between you and I, I swear by our fire
The infectious moment you left with me
Is something irreversible
And that's something I'll have to live with

My layers
Layers
Layers
My layers
They look like you
Your layers
Layers
Layers
Your layers
They're something I'll never shine through

Description
"Layers"

By the snake, the rooster lay asphyxiated
The ozone layers, faded
Snake, you're my charmer, my wish
But your venom chipped away the layers, degraded
For the viper's shedding skin became my blanket
With his warning rattle, I ignored
And I despise that
I've always choked on the shattered glass before I break it
I live by the skin of my teeth, but there's one thing I horde
That's your words
I hung onto every word you spoke
And I accepted your flaws
So now I accept the fact that I'm going to die as your prey
Between your true colors that act as a snake's jaws
Now it's time to choke...
Choke me gently

Sing me to sleep, sweet viper, sing me to sleep
Even if you're a part of my imagination
Just give me this one last taste and sensation
I don't care anymore, and someday, I'll forget about you
Maybe not anytime soon
But I'll give you my layers
Because I thought I heard your prayers
Because my layers were also you
Your layers were mine too
You can't erase what's been done
You haven't won
Cause I was under your skin
I kept you deep within
It was never a waste, and it never will be
You'll see
You're my layers you chipped away
I was your layer and I was there
I was there and I heard you pray

Digging past layers to see exactly
What cancer's inside you
I'm going to fall, I'm going to find
A darkness, I never knew
I don't know what, how or when
But when I die by your hands
I know I'll find a way to be born again
When you shed your layers,
You'll take someone else for your new skin
And when you're in my sight, When you forget your core
I will always forget how to breathe in
Because I always knew you'd be my own disease
Another place in time, another rhyme
I have to find a way, I beg, just sever this layer, please
Do you know what you've done
Putting napalm between my skin and now I'm on one knee
You can look through my tattered veil and realize
The layer you shed was apart of me

All of these scabs from you ripping yourself away from me
It doesn't work, it only brings me agony
Don't you try to make me forget about you this soon
I'm not ready to let you go
Not this time
Just so you know
I was the one who would've waited
For you to come out of your cocoon
I was the one who would've stayed
Even if you were afraid of the monsoon

Sing me to sleep, sweet viper, sing me to sleep
Even if you're a part of my imagination
Just give me this one last taste and sensation
I don't care anymore, and someday, I'll forget about you
Maybe not anytime soon
But I'll give you my layers
Because I thought I heard your prayers
Because my layers were also you
Your layers were mine too
You can't erase what's been done
You haven't won
Cause I was under your skin
I kept you deep within
It was never a waste, and it never will be
You'll see
You're my layers you chipped away
I was your layer and I was there
I was there and I heard you pray

I heard you say my name...

Change is not always for the better
But surface to the top of the water so deep
And this one secret is the one I shall keep
Between you and I, I swear by our fire
The infectious moment you left with me
Is something irreversible
And that's something I'll have to live with

My layers
Layers
Layers
My layers
They look like you
Your layers
Layers
Layers
Your layers
They're something I'll never shine through