Shut Down

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.