Bleeding In The Dark

[Verse 1]
Teeth on the curb of my memory
Hands tied up with your apathy
Every promise was a loaded gun
Pulled the trigger, watched what I’d become
Skin writes stories under torn-up sleeves
Scars like maps of everywhere you’d leave
Drip by drip, it spells your name
In this blackout, I still taste the blame
[Chorus]
I’m bleeding in the dark
Where you can’t see my heart
Every cut another quiet scream
Ripping through the seams of what I used to be
I’m bleeding in the dark
Tearing myself apart
If salvation ever hits this vein
It’s gonna have to wade through all this pain
[Verse 2]
You stitched my mouth with your bitter words
Fed me poison, called it what I “deserved”
Now my lungs breathe rust and ash
Still I crawl back, craving the crash
Mirror on the floor, cracked like my faith
Can’t tell my face from the broken glass waste
Your shadow’s carved into my spine
Every vertebrae repeats “you’re mine”
[Chorus]
I’m bleeding in the dark
Where you can’t see my heart
Every cut another quiet scream
Ripping through the seams of what I used to be
I’m bleeding in the dark
Tearing myself apart
If salvation ever hits this vein
It’s gonna have to wade through all this pain
[Bridge]
[drums drop to stomping halftime, guitars on brutal chugs]
You said “hurt yourself, just don’t hurt me” (hurt me)
So I buried every wound where you can’t see (can’t see)
Now the walls drink deep, they know my name
And they echo, and they echo, and they echo the shame
[Chorus]
I’m bleeding in the dark
Where you can’t see my heart
Every cut another quiet scream
Ripping through the seams of what I used to be
I’m bleeding in the dark
Tearing myself apart
If salvation ever hits this vein
It’s gonna have to wade through all this pain

rock, Juggernaut blend of metalcore and death metal: dual male death vocals trading gutturals and fry screams over tightly downpicked BC Rich rhythm guitars. Tama kit fires rapid double-kick bursts and blast-beat flurries, with halftime slam in the chorus. One dissonant tremolo-picked lead thread slices through the mix; brief breakdown drops to chugs and china crashes before a final all-out wall-of-sound outro., death metal, metalcore, hardcore, post-hardcore, metal, rich, hard rock