DEAD INSIDE

I used to carry stars beneath my skin (A)

Now every nerve just trembles in decay (B)

The child I was has long since faded thin (A)

While hollow years keep carving me away (B)

Verse 1

Each broken road left fractures in my veins (A)

Each empty promise stained another scar (B)

Now all my thoughts are welded into chains (A)

Like dying engines choking in the dark (B)

I do not cry when bodies hit the floor (A)

No river runs beneath these frozen eyes (B)

The world kept kicking through my shattered walls (A)

Until the soul inside me slowly died (B)

Pre-Chorus

I spit the truth like nails into the fire (A)

No sugar-coated lies to calm the weak (B)

This rotten age rewards the hollow liars (A)

While honest hearts are buried underneath (B)

Chorus

Dead inside — still I can’t feel fear (A)

Ghost in the tide while the end draws near (B)

Wild ride through the flames of hate (A)

I am the curse that I create (B)

Verse 2

The loneliness keeps scratching at my chest (A)

Like starving rats beneath a rotting floor (B)

I locked my feelings up without a rest (A)

Now silence guards the iron prison door (B)

These crowds are graveyards painted into gold (A)

Where status means far more than blood or breath (B)

If you are nobody, you fade out cold (A)

A living ghost still working after death (B)

Chorus

Dead inside — still I can’t feel fear (A)

Ghost in the tide while the end draws near (B)

Wild ride through the flames of hate (A)

I am the curse that I create (B)

(Heavy Guitar Solo)

Screaming bends tear through the silence

Double kicks hammer like collapsing walls

A descending melody spirals downward

Like a soul dragged through burning wires

Verse 3

I barely recognize my former face (A)

That hopeful boy dissolved beneath the strain (B)

Now every morning feels like second place (A)

Another lap around this rusted cage (B)

The coldness crawls like concrete through my blood (A)

Emotion freezes somewhere far below (B)

No holy hand can pull me from this mud (A)

I’m far too numb to even hate the fall (B)

Breakdown

Tear the pulse out from my chest (A)

Leave the silence, let it spread (B)

Every dream became a pest (A)

Feeding on the dying dead (B)

I walk alone through neon graves (A)

A cracked machine that still obeys (B)

No heaven waits beyond the haze (A)

Just endless static in my brain (B)

Chorus

Dead inside — still I can’t feel fear (A)

Ghost in the tide while the end draws near (B)

Wild ride through the flames of hate (A)

I am the curse that I create (B)

Final Chorus

Dead inside — still I can’t feel fear (A)

Ghost in the tide while the end draws near (B)

Wild ride through the flames of hate (A)

I am the curse that I create (B)

Dead inside — no signal left to send (A)

Only cold horizons without end (B)

Dead inside — I drag these chains for life (A)

Half of a man still trying to survive (B)

Final Guitar Solo Outro

Melodic lead guitar cries over crushing rhythm

The final notes stretch endlessly into feedback

One last heartbeat… then silence