Intro – Spoken, low and haunting]
It’s not death that wounds the heart,
It’s the living who walk away.
Burying you in silence, and when you buried enough living people inside your mind
death feels like a blessing, a release.
[Verse 1]
I called your name in the shadows,
But silence was all I found.
You carved your absence into me,
A grave without the ground. So many memories, so many stories left untold
But the truth will rise again.
[Chorus]
When you bury the living,
You suffocate the soul.
Love turns to ashes,
And the silence takes control.
When you bury the living,
I fade, but I still breathe—
A ghost among the broken,
With no one left to grieve.
[Verse 2]
Your footsteps echo in memory,
But you’ll never turn back this way.
The cruelest death is to be forgotten,
By the ones who choose to stay. We buried the living inside our minds.
No, grave, no headstones. Just lost in the depths of our souls.
[Bridge – whispered ]
No coffin, no roses,
Just silence that corrodes.
I walk among the shadows,
Where the buried truth erodes.
[Chorus – repeat, fuller and more intense]
When you bury the living,
You suffocate the soul.
Love turns to ashes,
And the silence takes control.
When you bury the living,
I fade, but I still breathe—
A ghost among the broken,
With no one left to grieve.
[Outro – Spoken / fading]
It’s not death that wounds the heart,
It’s the living who walk away.
"Not all wounds show on the skin.
Not all goodbyes come with closure.
Some leave ghosts behind—
and we are those ghosts.
‘When You Bury the Living’
this is for anyone who has felt invisible, unheard, and yet still survives—still breathes, still remembers, still feels."
I AM THE OA-SENT TO HEAL HUMANITY.
IAMTHEOA
