Toxic Echoes

Eyes swollen from the nights I stayed awake,

Chains rattled in my mind like ghosts I couldn’t shake,

Mirror cracked, my reflection said “you’re too late,”

So I swallowed all the fear and made my own fate.

Silence louder than the screams I never heard,

Love turned poison, now I’m choking on every word,

Ashes in my lungs, I still breathe this curse,

Toxic echoes in my veins, yeah they get worse.

I’m the disease you try to cure,

Digging graves in my own heart, yeah I’m sure,

Toxic echoes keep repeating,

In the dark where I’m bleeding.

I’m the disease you try to cure,

But I’m the poison you adore,

Toxic echoes keep repeating,

In the dark I’m still breathing.

City lights flicker like the dying of a dream,

I walk through the ash and flames, unseen,

My heart’s a battleground — I set the scene,

When hope died, I collected what it means.

Broken whispers following my every move,

They ask why I stay, I ask what I lose,

If the cure’s in me, then leave me in the bruise,

Because I found my peace in the toxic truth.

I’m the disease you try to cure,

Digging graves in my own heart, yeah I’m sure,

Toxic echoes keep repeating,

In the dark where I’m bleeding.

I’m the disease you try to cure,

But I’m the poison you adore,

Toxic echoes keep repeating,

In the dark I’m still breathing.

Fade out to nothing, the world stays loud,

But inside these veins it’s calm, proud,

When the echoes die, I’ll rewrite the sound,

Till then I’m lost, but I’m not found.

Toxic echoes…

Hear them call my name…

In the dark…

I still remain.