Veins of the Void

Shadows in my bloodstream whisper names I used to know,

Every memory a weapon, every heartbeat set to blow.

City lights are bleeding out like dying stars across the sky,

But I keep walking through the wreckage with a thousand reasons why.

I feel the fracture in my chest,

A war between my love and death.

If I don’t break, I’ll turn to stone…

But I won’t face this night alone.

So pull me from the dark—

I’m falling deeper in the veins of the void.

Where the ghosts of who I was

Are screaming loud, begging me to destroy.

If I burn, then let me burn

As the world collapses under my voice.

’Cause the fire in my lungs

Is the only thing that drowns out the noise.

Crimson on the pavement paints the truth I tried to hide,

All the demons wear my face, they know the secrets in my spine.

Gravity keeps dragging me right back to where I fell apart,

But I claw my way through hell to resurrect a beating heart.

Tear me open—

Let the night spill out of me.

I’m choking on the pieces

Of the man I’ll never be.

(SCREAM) I won’t fade! I won’t fold!

I’ll carve my name into the cold…

Pull me from the dark—

I’m falling deeper in the veins of the void.

Where the ghosts of who I was

Are begging me to let go of the noise.

If I shatter, let me rise—

A phoenix born of everything destroyed.

’Cause the fire in my lungs

Is the only thing that gives me a voice.

In the silence after war,

I finally hear my heartbeat roar…