[Intro]
Static stitching shut my ribcage
Floodlights hum when I blink
City keeps count of my footsteps
Like its waiting for me to sink
[Chorus]
This pressure on me crushes and ignites
Carbon lungs teach every breath how to bite
Buried alive, I was seeded and factored
Came back speaking in flames and fracture
This pressure around me locking me in place
But maps turn to ashes and Im gone without a trace
The ground asking for blood, those it can capture
As I turn away, sealed and lacquered.
[Verse 1]
Raised by alarms, red lights, and countdown clocks
By doors that dont open unless something drops
Learned early how to swallow a scream
When the room goes tight and it smells like defeat
Every promise came braided with wire
Every almost sparked another fire
I chased reflections till mirrors cracked
Found truth in the places I fell through the back
Hit bottom hard, heard the concrete preach
Said “nothing survives without losing its shape”
So I shed my name like excess weight
Let the pressure teach me how to stay
Kept my spine when the floor gave way
Kept my pulse when the faith went grey
I dont drift in hope, I vector in will
I dont wait for signs, I read the kill
[Pre-Chorus]
Had to drown just to hear what was real
Had to stand in the quiet till it learned my feel
If youve felt that vice in your chest lock tight
Then you know why I dont pray polite
[Chorus]
This pressure on me crushes and ignites
Carbon lungs teach every breath how to bite
Buried alive, I was seeded and factored
Came back speaking in flames and fracture
This pressure around me locking me in place
But maps turn to ashes and Im gone without a trace
The ground asking for blood, those it can capture
As I turn away, sealed and lacquered.
[Verse 2]
I dont trust peace that arrives unscarred
Every calm I earned came post yard
Seen love wear a halo of chrome
Till it asks what youll bleed to let it home
Every fall etched coordinates
Every scar learned how to navigate
I stress test fidelity, I stress test vows
If I can hear the melody, it holds me now
Load bearing soul in a shaking frame
Whole life felt like a tuning chain
When the noise cut out, one signal stayed
Didnt comfort me, just aimed
I dont chase light, I let it hunt
I dont plead case, I confront
Every mercy hit like a fault line shift
Didnt lift me up, just taught me drift
[Bridge]
If it stood, then it earned command
If it broke, then it was built in hand
Chaos learned my silhouette
And bowed its head when it commit
[Chorus]
This pressure on me crushes and ignites
Carbon lungs teach every breath how to bite
Buried alive, I was seeded and factored
Came back speaking in flames and fracture
This pressure around me locking me in place
But maps turn to ashes and Im gone without a trace
The ground asking for blood, those it can capture
As I turn away, sealed and lacquered
[Outro]
Static gone, but the signal hums
Every wound still speaking in tongues
If the dark asks who let me through
Tell it pressure did
And I followed too
Moonwire
