[Intro]
Cold steel under my tongue
A red light counts down
[Verse 1]
You left your coat on the factory chair
Rain in the sleeves, your scent still there
I read the note by the vending machine
Four crooked words: don't wait for me
I kept the key to the side door
Though we don't work there anymore
Every night the locks turn by themselves
Like something in me wants out of this shell
[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me why the silence knows my name
Tell me why I feed it all the same
[Chorus]
Break the pattern, cut the line
Drag the buried part into the light
If I disappear beneath the floor
I won't be yours to lose anymore
[Verse 2]
Blue powder dust on the loading bay
Your photograph folded and worn away
I hear your footsteps past the wall
But the hallway ends before they fall
My hands still shake when the trains arrive
Each iron wheel says you're alive
Then the last car clears the frozen track
And every promise comes crawling back
[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me why the silence knows my name
Tell me why I feed it all the same
[Chorus]
Break the pattern, cut the line
Drag the buried part into the light
If I disappear beneath the floor
I won't be yours to lose anymore
[Bridge]
I counted every door
I slept beside the sound
I gave you all the keys
You never turned around
[Breakdown]
No more waiting
No more shape
No more mercy
For the thing you made
[Final Chorus]
Break the pattern, cut the line
Drag the buried part into the light
Let the old machinery lose its voice
Let the wreckage prove I made a choice
[Outro]
The red light fades
The room goes still
I keep the key
But not your will