Nothing Waits For Me

**Verse 1**
I stopped asking why
Nothing ever answers
Every prayer feels staged
Every breath feels borrowed
I tried to believe in something
Anything bigger than decay
But everything I touched
Collapsed the same way

**Pre-Chorus**
They said the pain would pass
Like it was going somewhere
But it just learned my shape
And settled in

**Chorus**
There’s nothing waiting for me
On the other side of this
No truth, no closure
No forgiveness
I clawed my way through hell
Just to find it’s everywhere
If this is all there is
Then nothing matters here

**Verse 2**
Love is just a chemical lie
We tell ourselves to survive
You weren’t special
I was just afraid of being alone
Every memory fades
Every promise rots
We’re just ghosts pretending
We’re not already gone

**Pre-Chorus**
I watched the future die
In real time
Not with violence
Just neglect

**Chorus**
There’s nothing waiting for me
At the end of this road
No light, no lesson
Just a hole
I screamed into the void
And it sounded like home
If this is all there is
Then let it fucking go

**Bridge (low, venomous scream)**
WE PRETEND IT MEANS SOMETHING
SO WE DON’T BREAK
WE CALL IT LOVE
SO WE CAN TOLERATE
THE FACT THAT WE’RE ALONE
AND ALWAYS WERE
JUST MEAT AND MEMORY
HEADING FOR DIRT

**Breakdown (spoken, hollow)**
I don’t want to be saved
I don’t want to be seen
I don’t want a reason
I just want the noise to stop

**Breakdown (full scream)**
NO GOD
NO PURPOSE
NO GRAND DESIGN
JUST TIME
KILLING TIME
UNTIL WE DIE

**Final Chorus (detached, almost numb)**
There’s nothing waiting for me
No peace in letting go
No grand finale
No control
I survived every ending
Just to prove it’s all the same
If nothing has meaning
Then I won’t feel ashamed

**Outro (whispered, empty)**
I’m not broken
This is just what’s left

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Atmospheric post-hardcore with alt-metal feel and emotive clean vocals, chugging riffs and emotional guitar solo, male