(Verse 1)
Buried in the back of my skull again
Voices like a war that I cannot win
Every little crack in the mirror shows
Another piece of me that nobody knows
I’m sick of the weight, sick of the grind
Sick of the ghosts that live in my mind
Clawing and scratching under my skin
A battle I fight but never win
(Pre-Chorus)
You push me down, you drag me under
Twist the knife and steal the thunder
Every scar you left behind
Still bleeding through my mind
(Chorus)
This is my sunken wound
Deep in the dark where the pain consumes
No way out, no fucking light
Just me and the endless night
This is my sunken wound
A hollow space where the hate has bloomed
Screaming loud but no one hears
Drowning in these wasted years
(Verse 2)
Tried to numb it out, tried to kill the sound
But the silence only drags me down
Every memory hits like a brick
Every regret makes me fucking sick
I wear a smile like a cheap disguise
While everything real slowly dies
Cracks in the walls, cracks in my chest
Nothing inside of me gets rest
(Pre-Chorus)
You pull the strings, I feel them tighten
Every day another fight I’m
Losing ground I used to hold
Heart running fucking cold
(Chorus)
This is my sunken wound
Deep in the dark where the pain consumes
No way out, no fucking light
Just me and the endless night
This is my sunken wound
A hollow space where the hate has bloomed
Screaming loud but no one hears
Drowning in these wasted years
(Bridge)
I can feel it crawling
Underneath my bones
Every time I’m falling
I’m still fucking alone
No mercy from the past
No shelter from the storm
How long can this last
Before I fucking break and deform
(Breakdown)
Sink… deeper…
Choke on every memory
Break… shatter…
There’s no saving me
(Guitar Solo)
(Emotionally charged, aggressive, melodic bends into chaotic phrasing — building tension, then exploding into fast, jagged runs before collapsing back into a haunting sustain)
(Final Chorus)
This is my sunken wound
Where every dream I had was entombed
No clean slate, no release
Just a war that’ll never cease
This is my sunken wound
A permanent mark that fate has carved
Scream my truth into the void
Still fucking paranoid
(Outro)
It never heals, it never fades
Just festers deep and rearranges
Everything I tried to be
Now lies dead inside of me
A sinking weight I can’t outrun
A loaded past, a smoking gun
No salvation left to find
Just this wound that eats my mind.
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