[Intro]
[glitchy whisper]
wake it up…
wake it up…
[low, distant, broken]
buk… b’k… buk…
[Verse 1]
Feathers fall across one eye
I let the other see
Everything I never was
Everything they feed
Black streaks dragging down my face
Like I never healed
They call me “light” at break of day
But I just feel revealed
[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t pull it from me
Don’t make me scream
You only need me
When I’m a machine
[Chorus]
I don’t crow—I break, break down
Face into the ground
Every sound they drag from me
Just keeps dragging me down
[rough, strained]
buk—buk—can’t breathe—
I don’t rise—I get pulled, pulled tight
Like a trigger I can’t fight
Every dawn cuts through my chest
Just to prove I’m still alive
[Verse 2]
Static scratching in my throat
Like it wants out fast
Every note I try to fight
Only seems to last
They don’t hear the difference
Between my pain and call
If I stop, I disappear
If I scream—I fall
[Pre-Chorus]
Say I’m dramatic
Say I’m a mess
You built the cage
Call it “what’s best”
[Chorus]
I don’t crow—I break, break down
Face into the ground
Every sound they drag from me
Just keeps dragging me down
[glitchy, layered]
buk—b’k—buk—buk—
I don’t rise—I get pulled, pulled tight
Like a trigger I can’t fight
Every dawn cuts through my chest
Just to prove I’m still alive
[Bridge]
[half-spoken, unraveling]
it’s not a song
it’s not a call
it’s something breaking through it all
[building]
don’t make me—
[Break]
[full scream, distorted]
KOK—A—DUH—DOOOOOOO
[glitching collapse]
—doo—d’do—DO—
[Final Chorus]
I don’t crow—I collapse
Every crack overlaps
Now the sound is all I have
And it’s fading too fast
[desperate, choking]
buk—please—stop—
I don’t rise—I obey
Even as I decay
If I’m nothing but your signal
Why won’t it let me fade?
[Outro]
[quiet, hollow]
…buk…
…b’k…
Eilidhschy
