Splinters is an interesting pop and shoe-gaze type of mix. The lyrics are mainly vocalizations of mental abuse and struggle. Every other lyric is a metaphor for something left for the listener to interpret into their own situations and struggles.
“I wanted to leave the lyrics written in the second...
[Verse 1]
Close your eyes, when you're at the sight of blood
Better Shut your mouth, before you fall into the mud
Bricks flying through your windows you can't afford to pay
You start to get infected by the splinters in your brain
Please someone pull them out but everyone's afraid
You feel them piercing harder as you're dying day by day
[Chorus]
Can you feel it now?
Underneath your skin
Can you feel it now?
Throbbing deep within
Can you feel it now?
Hurts to rub it in
Oh
Feel it, can you feel it?
The splinters in your brain
[ solo 1]
[Verse 2]
Your back's been breaking, cause you've been lying on the road
Your neck starts aching, for somewhere to go
There's Pebbles in your knees and palms from falling down
You dropped your tweezers back there, and again you crawl around
They all just stand nearby as you look them in the eye
They say you're gone to soon, but you've been falling miles now
[Chorus]
Can you feel it now?
Underneath your skin
Can you feel it now?
Throbbing deep within
Can you feel it now?
Hurts to rub it in
Oh
Feel it, can you feel it?
The splinters in your brain
[Verse 3]
I'm loosing time, trying to explain
I start screaming, can't hear me anyway
No one listens to me when I try and speak to truth
Beaten down so hard that it bleeds into my youth
You don't listen to me, not a single word I say
All I hear these days is people just complain
[Chorus]
Can you feel it now?
Underneath your skin
Can you feel it now?
Throbbing deep within
Can you feel it now?
Hurts to rub it in
Oh
Feel it, can you feel it?
The splinters in your brain