[Verse 1]
There’s a copy in the hallway light
Same old shoes and a stolen stride
Dead-eyed grin with my Sunday face
Say my name in a stranger’s cadence

Every password turns to rust
Every mirror starts to blur
Little black dots in the camera glass
A life gone thin at the edges first

[Pre-Chorus]
Who signed the papers
Who cut the wire
Who let that ghost come dressed in my blood

[Chorus]
Don’t wear my name
Don’t wear my skin
Don’t walk around in the shape I’m in
Don’t take my voice
Don’t take my place
Don’t make a home in my borrowed face
I know that shadow
I know that grin
Somebody’s trying to let themselves in
Don’t wear my name
Don’t wear my name again

[Verse 2]
Bankline blinking, cold blue fraud
Small red warning, a swallowed alarm
Mother calls and the signal breaks
Says, “You sound strange” — yeah, no shit, I changed

Now the locks all feel ceremonial
Thin steel prayers on splintered frames
Mail comes opened, pictures moved
Even the dog don’t trust my shape

[Pre-Chorus]
Who took the daylight
Out of the record
Who put my fingerprints under their hands

[Chorus]
Don’t wear my name
Don’t wear my skin
Don’t walk around in the shape I’m in
Don’t take my voice
Don’t take my place
Don’t make a home in my borrowed face
I know that shadow
I know that grin
Somebody’s trying to let themselves in
Don’t wear my name
Don’t wear my name again

[Bridge]
Strip the tags off
Burn the file
Kill the double
Brick by brick, mile by mile

If the room goes black
If the whole thing caves
There’ll still be one thing they can’t fake

[Breakdown]
Pulse. Code. Teeth on the wire.
Every damn secret feeding the fire.
No clean exit, no clean slate —
Somebody wants me erased.

[Final Chorus]
Don’t wear my name
Don’t wear my skin
Don’t crawl inside all the places I’ve been
Don’t take my hands
Don’t take my fate
Don’t stitch your life to the lines on my face
I know that shadow
I know that grin
Somebody’s trying to let themselves in
Don’t wear my name
Don’t wear my name again

[Outro]
Take the cards
Take the keys
You still won’t take what makes me me