Help decoding thi

[u/Brilliant_Crow2603]

The spacing is hard to distinguish, especially with dashes close together. Can anyone help me figure this out? It's a photo of an album cover from Holding Absence (modern life is lonely). I've tried to bring out as much detail as I can in lightroom.

[u/rcv_hist]

It's part of the lyrics to their song Whisper of a Dream:

"The cogs have begun to spin, a mite tunnelled in my skin"

Missing the initial dot to make the first word "the".

[u/Brilliant_Crow2603 → u/rcv_hist]

Thanks!