[Intro]
Slow drip ceiling stain
Clock crack
Heartbeat
Strain
Teeth grit
Jaw locked tight
One spark in the night
[Verse 1]
I’ve been swallowing stones
Til my veins turned glass
Every promise a weight
Tied tight to my back
Every step on a fault line
Waiting to snap
I hear the concrete groan
As my patience cracks
[Pre-Chorus]
Nails in my palms
From the things I held
Breath in my lungs
Smelling like hell
I feel it rise
The fracture inside
This is the last time
I kneel and comply
[Chorus]
I break under pressure
Then I sharpen in the strain
You’ll hear me in the cracking
In the bending of the frame
I’m burning all the portraits
Every ghost I used to chase
From the embers and the wreckage
I’m the power taking shape
[Verse 2]
You wrote laws on my skin
With a rusted blade
Said “carry your shame”
Like it had my name
But the script runs thin
When the flesh upgrades
I’m carving new lines
Where your words once stayed
[Pre-Chorus]
Smoke in my lungs
From the bridges lit
Hands full of chains
Now I’m swinging them
I feel it tear
The shell you designed
This is the last time
You define my life
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
Let it all fall
Let the steel beams bend
Let the walls split open
Let the gold paint shed
I am not these ruins
I am what survived
The weight
The break
The unkillable spine
[crescendo]
[harsh vocals] Drag my fears through the fire
Til they blister
Curl
Expire
[clean vocals] Every scar
Every fracture line
Is a map back
To what is mine
[Breakdown]
[harsh vocals] Pressure makes monsters
Pressure makes kings
I was your victim
Now feel my swing
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Shards in my hands
But they shine like blades
Standing in the fallout
Unafraid
Unchained
From the ashes of the structure
I rise
Not the same
Built from fire
Built from failure
Built to bear the strain