Murdering Time

(distorted whisper)

Time has her

And I won’t let go

The clock digs in like a blade in her chest

Every second steals another breath

Doctors talk like they’ve given up

But I hear the countdown chewing us up

I see the end in the blinking lights

Hospital walls, sleepless nights

If time’s a god, then it bleeds the same

And I’m not afraid of the mess I’ll make

I don’t need heaven

I don’t need faith

I just need one more

Goddamn mistake

I’m murdering time

Before it takes her away

Tearing the hours apart

Till they break

I’m murdering time

If that’s the price I pay

Let the future rot

Just let her stay

I’ve tried praying to broken machines

Flatlines hum like a sick routine

They say “accept it,” they say “let go”

Like love’s something you outgrow

I’d shatter every second hand

Burn the years where we still stand

If time thinks it gets to decide

Then time’s about to fucking die

Tick

Cut

Crack

Break

Make it stop

Make it stop

I’m murdering time

Grinding minutes to dust

If the world needs a sacrifice

Then take what’s left of us

I’m murdering time

Hear the seconds scream

You can take my life

But you won’t take her from me

(stripped, intimate)

If I could trade my breath for hers

I’d do it slow

I’d do it first

If love’s a crime

Then lock me away

I’d kill eternity

Just for one more day

I’m murdering time

Till the clocks go blind

Till the end forgets

What it came to find

I’m murdering time

With my hands, with my teeth

If time is the monster

Then let it be me

Tick…

Tock…

Not today.

Not today.