Glass in the Throat

[Verse 1]
Teeth on the curb of a bad idea
Knuckles raw from the things I hide
Every word that you spit turns salt
In the wound that I keep inside
I keep pacing the same cracked floor
Tracing names in the paint that flakes
Every promise you made was chalk
On a wall that the rain erased
[Pre-Chorus]
Did you mean it
When you said you’d stay?
Or was I just
Something in your way?
[Chorus]
You put glass in my throat when you called it love
Every breath is a cut I can’t cough up
All this ache that you dressed up as hope
You put glass, you put glass in my throat
I keep swallowing shards just to say your name
Every syllable burns like it's gasoline
All this ache that you dressed up as hope
You put glass, you put glass in my throat (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Scars like tally marks down my chest
Counting nights that I couldn’t sleep
All the ghosts of the fights we picked
Still alive in the words I keep
I hear static in every prayer
Your reflection in every stain
I keep trying to scrape you off
But you’re etched in the back of my brain
[Breakdown]
[Drop to jagged chugs, guttural vocals]
Spit you out
Spit you out
But you cling like rust to my tongue
You were rot
You were rot
In the roots where my trust was young
[Chorus]
You put glass in my throat when you called it love
Every breath is a cut I can’t cough up
All this ache that you dressed up as hope
You put glass, you put glass in my throat
I keep swallowing shards just to say your name
Every syllable burns like it's gasoline
All this ache that you dressed up as hope
You put glass, you put glass in my throat (my throat)

Aggressive metalcore/post-hardcore, male vocals. Dissonant drop-tuned guitars with syncopated chugs locking to sharp, stuttering drums. Verses are tight and tense with guttural screams over tremolo-picked dissonances; choruses explode into soaring cleans, wide chords, and sidechained synth swells. Occasional halftime breakdown hits with layered growls and gang vocals. Mix is dry and immediate, vocal pushed slightly forward for impact., metalcore, post-hardcore, male vocals, soaring