Mouthful of ashes

Verse 1

I sleep beside the humming walls

Where wires crawl like spider legs

The television softly bleeds

Blue light across the rotting bed

The ceiling peels its paper skin

And whispers numbers in my ear

Every dollar born from hunger

Every clock sustained by fear

Outside, the city coughs black smoke

Into the artificial dawn

While people drift like amputated ghosts

Smiling with their spirits gone

Pre-Chorus

And somewhere beneath the traffic noise

A thousand quiet hearts collapse

No one notices

No one looks back seems like a zombie apocalypse no one notice no one looks back. Seems like a zombie apocalypse.

Chorus

We chew the bones of our own lives

And call it living

Drink from poisoned cups

And call it freedom

The skyline blooms like open wounds at rotting through the night Beautiful And septic

Verse 2

I watch as men become machines

One payment at a time

His spine bent slow beneath the weight

Of invisible designs

Children learning how to obey just to disappear

Inside illuminated screens

Mothers crying in bathroom stalls

With silent mouths and blistered dreams

And every hallway smells like mold

Wet concrete

Perfume

Decay

Like heaven drowned face-down in a sink

And left there for days

Bridge

Maybe hell was never fire

Maybe hell is repetition

The same grey morning

The same empty eyes

The same procession toward exhaustion

Maybe God abandoned this place

Like a condemned building

Boarded shut

Still echoing with old prayers

Final Chorus

So we dance beneath collapsing lights

With fractured teeth and shaking hands

Pretending this is normal

Pretending this was always the plan

While the earth grows cold beneath us

And the oceans swallow names

And every human heart becomes

Another room without a flame

Outro

Tonight the moon hangs low and sick

Like an infected tooth

And somewhere in the dark

Something ancient

Wears our faces

And watches quietly through the glass