Voices in the Walls

[Verse 1]
Walls breathe
Skin crawls
Every shadow has teeth
Every corner
A jaw that stalls mid-sentence
Hear it in the plaster
Hissing through the paint
My name
Dragged like a chain across the ceiling
[Chorus]
All these voices in the walls
Clawing at my skull
Circle
Circle
Closer
Closer
Till I can't tell which one is mine
All these voices in the walls
Laughing through my eyes
Tear my thoughts to crooked pieces
(are you real?) or just another lie
[Verse 2]
Floorboards twitch
Stare back
Every crack an eye
Every nail a tongue that hums my secrets
Breath on the back of my neck
But nothing stands behind
Just a hundred hungry echoes
Gnawing on my mind (yeah)
[Chorus]
All these voices in the walls
Clawing at my skull
Circle
Circle
Closer
Closer
Till I can't tell which one is mine
All these voices in the walls
Laughing through my eyes
Tear my thoughts to crooked pieces
(are you real?) or just another lie
[Bridge]
[whispered
Layered
Panning left to right]
You can't sleep
You can't speak
You are us
You are weak
[full scream]
If I rip my ears out
Will you finally let me be
Or will I hear you in the silence
Screaming louder inside me
[Chorus]
All these voices in the walls
Clawing at my skull
Circle
Circle
Closer
Closer
There is nothing left that's mine
All these voices in the walls
Laughing as I break
If I vanish in the screaming
Will they leave
Or wear my face

metal, Modern death metal with female vocals; tremolo-picked guitars over blast-heavy drums, sudden half-time drops for vocal clarity, low growls contrasted with piercing shrieks. Verses stay tight and suffocating, bass locked to kick; chorus opens into dissonant, sliding chords and layered screams for a huge, chaotic wall. Brief atmospheric break with distant whispers, then final chorus slams back in at full intensity., death metal