Bare Wire 2 (Version 2)

Verse

Cables cross my skin like a map

Fingers tracing where the pulse runs through

Dust on the steel floor turns to gold in the sunbeam

This is how you measure the weight of a long night

Every wire hums low and clear

Nothing broken yet, nothing here but the hum

I stand at the center of it all

Feeling the charge start to crawl out my hands through the walls

Pre-Chorus

Can I trust what's happening inside?

Is this the start or the end of this ride?

The machines are quiet but they're not still

Something in me is breaking apart for real

Chorus

Cut me open with a bare wire tonight

Let the current find its way through my skin

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Let the whole city pull us down into this skin

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Nothing left but the hum of you and me

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Verse

Your fingers move slow like a key in the dark

Every circuit waiting for just the right spark

Neon sign outside is fading to blue

I don't know what's holding us together, it's not true

The power lines above them hum low and steady

Not a single spark out of place yet, no urgency

Just your hand on my chest where the charge runs true

Nothing in this room but you and I and the current too

Pre-Chorus

Can I trust what's happening inside?

Is this the start or the end of this ride?

The machines are quiet but they're not still

Something in me is breaking apart for real

Chorus

Cut me open with a bare wire tonight

Let the current find its way through my skin

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Let the whole city pull us down into this skin

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Nothing left but the hum of you and me

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Bridge

No lights, no sound, just your palm on my chest

I'm not lost here, I am exactly at rest

Every wire in my body sings the same pitch

This is how we find our own frequency tonight

Chorus

Cut me open with a bare wire tonight

Let the current find its way through my skin

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Let the whole city pull us down into this skin

Bare wire humming where your hand should be

Nothing left but the hum of you and me

Bare wire humming where your hand should be