(VAI) Slip & Slide

Lyrics

SLIPPING SLIDE [Intro — whispered / blown-out] Slip out. Slide in. Lose the shape I was living in. Slip out. Slide in. Where the fuck have I been? ⸻ [Verse 1 — dirty grunge groove] I woke up wearing somebody else’s skin, Same old room but the walls bent in. Ceiling breathing, television snow, There’s a door in my head and I don’t know where it goes. I keep one foot here, one somewhere behind, Dragging dead dimensions through the back of my mind. Every time I think I finally fit— I slip. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] Out of the frame, out of the light, out of the mouth of a permanent night. No destination. No goodbye. Just— ⸻ [Chorus — huge / melodic but filthy] SLIP OUT — SLIDE IN. Let another little universe begin. SLIP OUT — SLIDE IN. Through the crack between the ending and the skin. I lose myself just to find it again. SLIP OUT. SLIDE IN. ⸻ [Verse 2 — heavier] Static dripping from a satellite vein, Every version of me screaming my name. One got clean. One got rich. One found God. One dug the ditch. One stayed young. One disappeared. One became everything I ever fucking feared. And somewhere there’s a me who never made this choice— But I can hear that bastard breathing through the noise. ⸻ [Pre-Chorus 2] Wrong door. Right night. Loose grip. White light. Reality’s got a zipper running straight down the spine— Pull. ⸻ [Chorus] SLIP OUT — SLIDE IN. Let another little universe begin. SLIP OUT — SLIDE IN. Every exit is an entrance if you twist it right. I lose myself just to find it again. SLIP OUT. SLIDE IN. ⸻ [Bridge — psychedelic / half-time] Maybe I’m falling. Maybe I’m fucking flying. Maybe the difference is whether you’re laughing or crying. Maybe the body is only a room. Maybe the doorway is hiding in you. Maybe I leave. Maybe I stay. Maybe I wake up three lifetimes away. ⸻ [Build — increasingly unhinged] I felt the edges loosen. I felt the picture split. I watched myself step sideways— AND SOMETHING ELSE STEPPED IN. ⸻ [BREAKDOWN] SLIP. OUT. Leave your fucking shadow behind. SLIDE. IN. There’s always another inside. NO GOD. NO MAP. NO SKIN. JUST SLIP THE FUCK OUT— AND SLIDE BACK IN. ⸻ [Post-Breakdown / dissonant] Wrong life. Wrong face. Wrong blood. Same taste. Wrong world. Same sin. Slip out. Slide in. ⸻ [Final Chorus — massive] SLIP OUT — SLIDE IN. I don’t know where I stop or where you begin. SLIP OUT — SLIDE IN. Every heaven’s got a hallway, every hell’s got a hinge. And if this whole fucking universe is wearing thin— I’ll slip out. You slide in. ⸻ [Outro — whispered] Slip out. Slide in. Slip out. Slide in. If I come back different— don’t let me back in.