[Intro]
Cave of my chest
Drips in echoes
Cold fingers on steel
Every breath
A tremor
[Verse 1]
Teeth in the static
Bite down on my thoughts
Every stuttered second
Another wire pulled taut
You trace old scars
Like reading a map
Of every time I folded
Every time I snapped
[Chorus]
I keep dragging this shadow behind me
Like a flag that I never believed in
You say
"Let it go
" but it binds me
All the weight that I never agreed with
If I set it on fire tonight
Would I finally feel alive?
I keep dragging this shadow behind me
Till it turns
Till it turns into light
[Verse 2]
Hands on the table
Knuckles pale with the strain
You laugh like it's nothing
I drown in the grain
Of your half-spoken warnings
Your almost-goodbye
I choke on the silence
You don't even try
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[low vocal register]
You said my name
Like a sentence
Not a song
Every letter
Another thing I got wrong
But I'm still here
In the crack between lines
Where the hurt grows teeth
Where the dark rewinds
[crescendo]
If I tear this banner from my spine
Will the scars draw a straighter line?
[Chorus]
[Outro]
Strings ringing hollow
Smoke in my lungs
Footsteps fading
From a hallway unsung
Just the drip of the pad
And the ghosts in the wires
I breathe in the dark
And exhale the fire