Verse 1
The quiet moves through me like frost on stone,
A slow, creeping winter I face alone.
My thoughts drift like embers too tired to rise,
Fading in circles beneath tired skies.
The room holds its breath as I start to fade—
A shadow of someone I never remade.
Pre-Chorus
And the dark learns my footsteps,
Follows where I go—
A gentle, unwelcome
Familiar shadow.
Chorus
I shut down—
Like a candle drowned where the river bends.
The moment grows heavier than I can defend,
And time becomes something I cannot mend.
I shut down—
Falling softly where the silence crowns.
If tomorrow calls, it won’t reach me now…
’Cause everything in me
Is shutting down.
Verse 2
The mirror remembers the weight of my stare,
The versions of me that were almost there.
I trace their outlines but they never stay—
Ghosts of intentions that slipped away.
The hours lean in with a quiet demand,
Pulling me deeper than I understand.
Pre-Chorus
And the night keeps its secrets,
Ones I used to know—
Now written in patterns
The lost only show.
Chorus
I shut down—
Like a candle drowned where the river bends.
The moment grows heavier than I can defend,
And time becomes something I cannot mend.
I shut down—
Falling softly where the silence crowns.
If tomorrow calls, it won’t reach me now…
’Cause everything in me
Is shutting down.
Bridge
If hope is a lantern, it flickers too low—
A shimmer of light that refuses to grow.
I reach for its warmth, but the cold settles in,
A quiet that burrows beneath my skin.
And every small heartbeat
Feels borrowed somehow—
A fragile reminder
I’m still here for now.
Chorus
I shut down—
As the world keeps turning just out of sight.
I drift like a whisper dissolving in night,
Too weary to stand, too numb to fight.
I shut down—
Let the darkness lay its gentle crown.
If I rise again, I don’t know how…
But for this breath,
For this moment—
I’m shutting down.
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