[Intro]
Every breath leaves one less name
On the other side of the gate
[Verse 1]
I wake with a mouthful of winter
And a room that remembers the dead
One breath, and the candle goes under
One breath, and the verdict is said
I never asked for the furnace
I never signed for the flame
But somewhere below every heartbeat
A stranger is learning my name
[Pre-Chorus]
My hands are clean in the mirror
My lungs are guilty below
I carry a heaven-sized silence
Wherever my footsteps go
[Chorus]
My brother has nothing inside him
No altar, no ache, no regret
They call him a monster for choosing
I kill without choosing it yet
He sleeps like a knife in a drawer
I bleed like a man at the door
I have a soul, and it knows what I do
That makes me worse than him
That makes me worse than him
[Verse 2]
He watches the weak with a smile
As if mercy were something to steal
I watch them collapse in the distance
And feel every second they feel
He says that a heart is a weakness
He says that the world should be pruned
I say there is still something human
Then breathe, and another is doomed
[Pre-Chorus]
My hands are clean in the mirror
My lungs are guilty below
I carry a heaven-sized silence
Wherever my footsteps go
[Chorus]
My brother has nothing inside him
No altar, no ache, no regret
They call him a monster for choosing
I kill without choosing it yet
He sleeps like a knife in a drawer
I bleed like a man at the door
I have a soul, and it knows what I do
That makes me worse than him
That makes me worse than him
[Bridge]
Twin, twin, standing in the doorway
Tell me which one should be feared
The one who never felt a warning
Or the one who felt it and appeared?
If I hold my breath, they still can’t save me
If I let it go, the dark gets fed
You were born without a conscience
I was born with one that counts the dead
[Breakdown]
Don’t look at me
Don’t say my name
Don’t make me breathe
Don’t make me breathe
[Final Chorus]
My brother has nothing inside him
No altar, no ache, no regret
They call him a monster for choosing
I kill without choosing it yet
He sleeps like a knife in a drawer
I bleed like a man at the door
I have a soul, and it knows what I do
That makes me worse than him
That makes me worse than him
[Outro]
One breath for the nameless
One breath for the flame
My twin has no soul to deliver
I have one—and it remembers every name