Knives In The Noise

Noise leaks through the walls at night

Says my name in pieces

Every smile feels loaded now

Every silence bleeds us

I count the cracks in the ceiling

Like reasons I should run

You swore we’d die together

Now you’re already gone

There’s a shadow in the feedback

Wearing your face

Every truth I handed to you

You gave it a place

You left your knives in the noise

Buried deep in my back

I was bleeding for the circle

While you planned the attack

Enemies speak in echoes

Friends learn how to lie

I’m screaming through the noise

While you watch me die

The hum sounds like a warning sign

I can’t tune it out

Your voice swims in distortion

Then dissolves into doubt

You fed me to the rumor fire

Called it “keeping it clean”

I built a home inside my chest

You burned it in between

Hands I trusted mapped my fear

Like streets they’d learned by heart

Every scar you helped me close

Was where you’d start

You left your knives in the noise

Buried deep in my back

I was bleeding for the circle

While you planned the attack

Enemies speak in echoes

Friends learn how to lie

I’m screaming through the noise

While you watch me die

If I disappear in feedback

Would you finally feel free?

Was I always just a signal

You were waiting to delete?

I scream into the emptiness

It never lies to me

It only shows what’s broken

Not what we used to be

You left your knives in the noise

Called it loyalty

I was fighting for a family

You were killing parts of me

Enemies know my heartbeat

Friends know where I fall

I fade into the aftersound

While you feel nothing at all

The noise stays honest

The noise stays honest

When everyone’s gone