Skinless in the Machine (Version 2)

Verse

Scanner reads the heat off my wrist

Door remembers what my hand is

Skin goes thin under the light

Grid decides if I've got a right

Barcode blinks where my pulse should be

Number replaces what used to be me

Current runs where my nerves once led

Machine keeps count of the blood I shed

Pre-Chorus

Tell me where the border ends

Skin or wire, they're blurring in

Chorus

Skinless in the machine

No skin left between

Skinless in the machine

Nothing left to screen

Verse

Hundred wrists on the same red beam

Skin turns data, data turns steam

Sensor hums where my name went dead

Circuit wears the shape of my head

Temperature grid, every chest the same

Skin can't hold on to its own claim

Voltage low where my hand used to feel

Chrome remembers, but I don't feel real

Pre-Chorus

Tell me where the border ends

Skin or wire, they're blurring in

Chorus

Skinless in the machine

No skin left between

Skinless in the machine

Nothing left to screen

Bridge

Scan

Read

Erase

Merge

Current

Runs

Skin

Gone

Chorus

Skinless in the machine

No skin left between

Skinless in the machine

Nothing left to screen