[Intro – ambient / glitchy, whispered]
(soft static, distant breathing)
I swear I woke up…
…but the walls are breathing again
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[Verse 1 – low screams, restrained]
There’s a shadow stitched inside my chest
Sewed in silence, dressed in my regret
Every mirror shows a different face
But they all rot at the same damn pace
I tried to scream but the sound won’t stay
It dissolves like ash in a hurricane
If this is real, then why can’t I feel
Anything but the glitch in my veins?
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[Pre-Chorus – building, half-clean/strained]
I’m slipping through the seams of sleep
A body here, but it’s not me
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[Chorus – big, haunting clean vocals]
I’m alive but I’m buried in the dream
Velvet static swallowing me
Every heartbeat skips the truth
Am I waking up or phasing through?
Say my name—does it sound the same?
Or did I die in a different frame?
If I’m breathing, why can’t I scream?
I’m alive… but buried in the dream
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[Verse 2 – higher intensity screams]
There’s a voice that calls from underneath
Speaking in tongues I used to be
Every step lags two frames behind
Like I’m chasing ghosts in my own mind
Teeth grind down just to feel awake
Blood tastes like the choices I made
Cut the signal, kill the feed
Still the nightmare looks like me
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[Pre-Chorus – bigger, desperate]
I’m fracturing in my sleep again
Tell me—where the hell have I been?
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[Chorus – full instrumentation]
I’m alive but I’m buried in the dream
Velvet static swallowing me
Every heartbeat skips the truth
Am I waking up or phasing through?
Say my name—does it sound the same?
Or did I die in a different frame?
If I’m breathing, why can’t I scream?
I’m alive… but buried in the—
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[Breakdown – slow, crushing]
(silence → single hit)
WHISPER:
Wake. Me. Up.
(drop)
BLEGH
Rip the skin, I don’t belong
This body’s just a borrowed wrong
Pull the plug—disconnect the lie
If this is living, let me die
(half-time chugs)
I DIED IN MY SLEEP—BUT I NEVER WOKE UP
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[Bridge – eerie clean, almost hollow]
If I fade, will I finally feel?
Or is numbness all that’s real?
Count the breaths, they don’t add up
I’m still here… but something’s cut
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[Final Chorus – layered, huge]
I’m alive but I’m buried in the dream
Velvet static swallowing me
Every heartbeat skips the truth
Am I waking up or phasing through?
Say my name—does it sound the same?
Or did I die in a different frame?
If I’m breathing, why can’t I scream?
I’m alive… but buried in the dream
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[Outro – glitch fade]
(distorted whisper looping)
Wake up… wake up… wake up…
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