Verse 1
I am full of rage
The kind that does not shout
The kind that haunts bone
I told myself I let it go
I did not
I pressed it so deep
It forgot language
Learned instead
How to burn
Pre-Chorus
My anger consumes me
Yet my mouth opens to nothing
I want to scream at the world
But my voice learned to vanish
Chorus (hook)
I am choking
I am drowning
Not in water
But in an ocean of unscreamed fury
Every wave remembers
What I was never allowed to say
Verse 2
I learned to shrink
I learned to disappear inside myself
Even my wanting is mute
Even if I tried to scream
Sound would not recognize me
Pre-Chorus
Who is this rage for?
My mother, my father, myself
Does it matter where the blame rests
When it all drowns the same?
Chorus (repeat)
I am choking
I am drowning
Not in water
But in an ocean of unscreamed fury
Every wave remembers
What I was never allowed to say
Bridge (soft, intimate)
I want to rise
I want to roar
But silence lives inside me
It knows me by name
Final Chorus (powerful, layered)
I am choking
I am drowning
Not in water
But in an ocean of unscreamed fury
Every wave remembers
What I was never allowed to say
Outro (fade, whispered)
I am choking…
I am drowning…