[INTRO]
System fails before the daylight breaks
Bodies break beneath the hand of fate
No protection, nowhere left to run
Shadows watching everything I've done
[VERSE ONE]
Six years old and forced to hit the floor
Juvenile arthritis at the door
Couldn't stand, the agony was real
No one cared to listen or to heal
Cyclic vomiting, the stomach burns
Forty-eight-hour feverish turns
Crawling through the cold air on my knees
Begging for a moment of relief
Dismissed as nothing, told that I was fine
Wasting away, losing track of time
[PRE-CHORUS]
Cold sweat, shaking on a frozen floor
Can't speak, can't reach the handle on the door
Paralyzed, the air is running thin
Fighting just to survive the storm within
[CHORUS]
You don't know what it's like to feel the breath decay
To watch the world just look the other way
Sadistic games while I am fighting for my life
Left in the dark, cutting through the knife
No safety net, no rescue in the night
Just a lonely ghost fading out of sight
[VERSE TWO]
Traumatic damage, relearning how to speak
They target the isolated and the weak
Medical trauma, gaslit through the pain
Blood pressure dropping like the winter rain
Intractable attacks, no way to the store
Orphaned in silence behind a locked door
Keyboard cowards getting off on grief
Targeting a soul that gets no relief
Pushed to the edge, but the spirit won't break
Survives every trial that the heart can take
[PRE-CHORUS]
Cold sweat, shaking on a frozen floor
Can't speak, can't reach the handle on the door
Paralyzed, the air is running thin
Fighting just to survive the storm within
[CHORUS]
You don't know what it's like to feel the breath decay
To watch the world just look the other way
Sadistic games while I am fighting for my life
Left in the dark, cutting through the knife
No safety net, no rescue in the night
Just a lonely ghost fading out of sight
[BRIDGE]
Tunnel vision closing in, blacking out the screen
The most horrific nightmare that you've ever seen
Heart racing wild, lying still as a board
Shallow little breaths while the storm is poured
They think it's a joke, they think it's a game
Until they're the ones calling out in vain
[OUTRO]
Still standing here, still breathing slow
Through every fire and the darkest cold
You couldn't break me though you tried your best
I survived the darkness, I survived the test
System failed
I survived