My chest is tight, my hands are getting cold
But I can't read the story I'm being told
They tell me that it's sadness, maybe it's fear
But it's just white noise buzzing in my ear
I feel the water falling from my eyes
I wipe my face but I can't tell you why
No labels on the bottles on my shelf
I'm just a stranger living in myself

The heart is beating but the screen is blank
I'm drawing water from an empty tank
I have the symptoms but I lack the name
I'm holding fire but I feel no flame
(Feel no flame)

I'm lost in translation inside my own mind
Looking for something I don't know how to find
I got a million colors bleeding in my head
But every time I paint, it comes out shades of lead
You ask me how it hurts, I don't know what to say
A ghost inside the machine, fading in the gray
(I don't know what to say)

Sit, sit across the table, you're waiting for a sign
A word for the feeling that's crossing the line
But the dictionary's empty, the pages are torn
I'm standing in the Sun but I never get warm
Is it anger? Is it love? Is it just a mistake?
I can't tell the difference in the choices I make
Just a physical pulse in a hollowed-out room
Like a flower that forgot exactly how to bloom

The heart is beating but the screen is blank
I'm drawing water from an empty tank
I have the symptoms but I lack the name
I'm holding fire but I feel no flame
(Feel no flame)

I'm lost in translation inside my own mind
Looking for something I don't know how to find
I got a million colors bleeding in my head
But every time I paint, it comes out shades of lead
You ask me how it hurts, I don't know what to say
A ghost inside the machine, fading in the gray

How do I explain it
When the words don't exist?
I'm feeling everything
But it feels like a mist
My body reacts, but my soul is on mute
I'm a tree with no branches, a tree with no root

I don't know how I feel
I don't know what is real

I'm lost in translation inside my own mind
Looking for something I don't know how to find
I got a million colors bleeding in my head
But every time I paint, it comes out shades of lead
You ask me how it hurts, I don't know what to say
A ghost inside the machine, fading in the gray

(Shades of lead)
I don't know what to say
I'm just blank
(I'm just blank)