[Verse 1] Skin so thin Heart so soft Untainted innocence Fresh for the rocks Screams and cries Betrayal and lies Each cutting deeper Each scar becoming clearer [Chorus] Layered skin Stacked neat Stacked tight Each layer armor From world's senseless spite Frayed screams Hollowed eyes Shedding thin behind thickened hide Grown so callous (so callus) Underneath the lamella The soul survives [Verse 2] Purity's lost to scrutiny And layers thicken again Depravity leads to morality Our society flaking thin Crushed. Stuck. Shattered and shamed. Till the skin's so thick So cold, no pain [Bridge] Never wanted to be this way But the avalanche of life It crushes down Buried beneath the ice Lamella of frost Down so deep Nothing can reach here Far underneath... [Chorus] Layered skin Stacked in neat Stacked in tight Each layer stronger Forged heart, soul under ice Cast in frost and farther In the packed strata Protected, and layered deep Far underneath... My lamella [Instrumental] [Bridge 2] Fossilized in fear In suffocating layers So lost far beneath The lamella becomes the jailer --- Gotta excavate (excavate) Elevate above the flesh Ascend to the surface (find purchase) Upon the plateau of pain I've shed [Outro Chorus] Layered skin Shed the weak Shed the fright Each layer higher A mountain I survived Cold chrysalis to fighter The strata, a mesa comprised Of the scars that once enveloped All the layers that once buried I stand upon the stacks of... Above my lamellamore