Artificial Habits

[Verse 1]

Been chewing on the same old screen light

Cold coffee in a paper cup

Scroll scars on my thumb

Man

It aches

Still I can’t look up

Ashtray full of half-burned mornings

Sink stacked with last week’s bones

Laugh into the glow ’til it answers

Then it leaves me alone

[Chorus]

These artificial habits got me hollow

Programmed pulse

I twitch and I follow

I’m wired wrong

But I keep on scratching

Bleeding through the same old pattern

Artificial habits

Little colored lies that fade

Smack my heart like a broken lighter

Spark

Fail

Shake

Replayed

Shoelaces tied to the turnstile

Spinning in a hallway groove

I swear I’m gonna cut this cord

But my fingers just won’t move

[Chorus]

These artificial habits got me hollow

Programmed pulse

I twitch and I follow

I’m wired wrong

But I keep on scratching

Bleeding through the same old pattern

Artificial habits

Dog on a chain

Gnawing at the rust of my own name

[Bridge]

I want dirt roads

Real stones in my shoes

Not this glass in my head

This looping excuse

Rip the plug out

Yank the mask down (hey!)

Let it all crash

Let it all crash now

[Chorus]

These artificial habits got me hollow

Programmed pulse

I twitch and I follow

I’m wired wrong

But I keep on scratching

Bleeding through the same old pattern

Artificial habits

Dog on a chain

Gnawing at the rust of my own name