[Intro — ambient static / distant guitar swell]
I’ve been talking to ghosts again…
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[Verse 1 — restrained screams]
Every morning feels like mourning
Another piece of me gone cold
I keep dragging dead tomorrows
Through a body growing old
I smile just enough to fool them
Hide the rot behind my teeth
But every “I’m okay” I whisper
Sounds like begging underneath
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[Pre-Chorus — clean, aching]
If I let go…
Would anyone notice the silence?
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[Chorus — huge emotional hook]
Drown me where I stand
I’m too tired to fight the undertow again
My heart’s a sinking ship
Full of memories I can’t forgive
And I scream your name through flooded lungs
While heaven watches what I’ve become
If I disappear in all this pain—
Will anybody say I stayed?
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[Verse 2 — heavier]
There’s a cemetery in my chest
Rows of dreams I couldn’t save
Every promise decomposing
In the dirt beneath my rage
I’ve held the blade of self-destruction
Like a lover in my hands
But even death looked back and told me
“You don’t get out that way, man.”
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[Pre-Chorus]
If I break now…
Will anyone hold the pieces?
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[Chorus]
Drown me where I stand
I’m too tired to fight the undertow again
My heart’s a sinking ship
Full of memories I can’t forgive
And I scream your name through flooded lungs
While heaven watches what I’ve become
If I disappear in all this pain—
Will anybody say I stayed?
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[Breakdown — violent]
BLEGH
I AM THE WEIGHT THAT DRAGS ME DOWN
THE STORM I FEAR IS IN ME NOW
NO SAVIOR COMING
NO HAND TO GRAB
JUST TEETH OF THE TIDE
AND A LIFE THAT CRACKS
DROWN
ME
WHERE
I
STAND
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[Bridge — soft, tragic clean vocals]
Maybe I was never meant to heal…
Only survive what I can’t feel…
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[Final Chorus — bigger, desperate]
Drown me where I stand
Or pull me from this undertow again
Maybe this sinking ship
Still has one prayer it won’t forget
And I’ll scream my name through flooded lungs
Until I love what I’ve become
If I survive through all this pain—
Tell them I fought…
Tell them I stayed.
[Outro whispered]
I stayed…
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