Ashes In Her Silence

[Verse 1]
You stare through me
Like stained glass cracked
All that color
Leaks to black
You wear your hurt
Like a borrowed coat
You call it armor
But it chokes your throat
[Pre-Chorus]
I held my breath
Inside your storm
You never reached
You never called
[Chorus]
You let your demons love you more than I did
You bowed to every shadow in your head
I was on my knees
Begging you to feel it
You just watched the brightest parts of us fade dead
I broke myself wide open just to find
You chose the dark and left our light behind
[Verse 2]
I learned your scars
Like sacred text
Read every line
Still
I was next
You said “I’m fine”
With a frozen face
Every “I’m fine”
Pushed me from your grace
[Pre-Chorus]
I built a home
Around your grave
Laid down my name
To keep you saved
[Chorus]
You let your demons love you more than I did
You bowed to every shadow in your head
I was on my knees
Begging you to feel it
You just watched the brightest parts of us fade dead
I broke myself wide open just to find
You chose the dark and left our light behind
[Bridge]
[Half-time
Vocals breaking
Then growls]
How do you sleep
On the bones of us? (hey!)
You never cried
You just turned to dust
I tore my heart out
Placed it in your hands
You watched it bleed out
Said
“You understand”
Now I am done
Being sacrifice
I’ll climb your ruin
And reclaim my life
[Chorus]
You let your demons love you more than I did
You bowed to every shadow in your head
I was on my feet
Bleeding just to heal it
You just watched the brightest parts of us fall dead
I broke myself wide open
Now I see
Your war was never meant to include me
[Outro]
[Instruments drop to piano and clean guitar]
I loved you once
Enough for two
But I choose me
Where I once chose you
Your silence burns
But I will rise
Step from your ashes
Into my own sky (oh)

metal, Emotional djent ballad with Sleep Token-style dynamics; male vocals. Clean, intimate piano and atmospheric guitars under hushed verses; drums creep in with syncopated, off-kilter chugs. Choruses explode into wide, layered vocal harmonies over polyrhythmic low-tuned riffs, bass gluing the groove. Bridge surges into guttural screams over crushing stabs, then resolves to a soaring, reverb-drenched outro hook., sleep, emotional, djent, ballad