Nine AM and I'm already somebody else
Got a voice for the room and a voice for myself
Got a smile I can wear like a coat off a hook
And nobody's ever gonna ask what's underneath the look
I say the right thing, I stand in the right place
I've got a whole clean life stretched over my face
And it fits like a lie that I've told for so long
That I half believe the version where there's nothing wrong
But the second that the door shuts and the room goes still
Every single thing I swallowed comes back up the hill
And it's loud in here
It's so loud in here
Everybody's talking but there's nobody near
I'm just static
I'm just noise behind the glass
Everybody sees the picture
Nobody sees the crack
I've been shouting into nothing
And the nothing shouts it back
So turn it up, turn it up
Let the whole thing break
I'd rather hear it screaming
Than another day of fake
Turn it up, turn it up
Let it carry through the crowd
If it's all gonna come apart
Then let it come apart loud
I built a better man and I sent him outside
Let him handle every question that I couldn't decide
He's easy, he's charming, he's quick with a line
He's everything I'm not and he's doing just fine
But the thing about a costume is it tightens with the years
And the thing about a good one is that nobody hears
When the man underneath it starts clawing at the seam
Saying let me out, let me out, I've been buried in the dream
Let me out, let me out
Let me out
And it's loud in here
It's so loud in here
Everybody's talking but there's nobody near
I'm just static
I'm just noise behind the glass
Everybody sees the picture
Nobody sees the crack
I've been shouting into nothing
And the nothing shouts it back
So turn it up, turn it up
Let the whole thing break
I'd rather hear it screaming
Than another day of fake
Turn it up, turn it up
Let it carry through the crowd
If it's all gonna come apart
Then let it come apart loud
Tear it down (tear it down)
Every wall I built to hide
Tear it down (tear it down)
I'm not living on the other side
I'd rather be a broken thing that's mine
Than a perfect piece of somebody's design
Tear it down
Tear it down
And underneath the static
There's a man who never left
He's been standing here the whole time
Just waiting to be heard
Just waiting to be heard
I'm not static
I'm not noise behind the glass
I'm the one who broke the picture
I'm the one who made the crack
I stopped shouting into nothing
And the nothing shouted back
Turn it up, turn it up
Let the whole thing break
I'd rather be a mess that's mine
Than another day of fake
Turn it up, turn it up
Let it carry through the crowd
It already came apart
And I'm still standing loud
Still here
(Turn it up)
Still here