ARCHITECTURE OF COLLAPSE

There's a silent fire
Behind my eyes

There's a silent fire burning behind my eyes
Smoke curls where the air won't stay
I wear these ruins like they're answers in disguise
But everything I touch just fades away

Clocks bleed out on the walls of my chest
Time keeps carving through my skin
Balancing on the edge of what's left
Between giving up or giving in

If I shatter into fractured light
Which piece of me survives the night?

I ignite the void so I don't fade out
Cold sparks learning how to breathe somehow
If the abyss starts calling my name
I scream in flames so I don't break
I'm the error that refused to die
A scar that learned how to outrun time
If the end redraws what's left of me
I rebuild, I don't fade, I don't break

Buried voices in oceans of glass
So I won't hear what they demand
But every silence echoes back
Like a ghost I can't command

They said: Be quiet, disappear
But I'm excess in overdrive
A short circuit fueled by fear
A failing pulse that won't flatline

If I fall inside myself again
Will I return or just descend?

I ignite the void so I don't fade out
Cold sparks learning how to breathe somehow
If the abyss starts calling my name
I scream in flames so I don't break
I'm the error that refused to die
A scar that learned how to outrun time
If the end redraws what's left of me
I rebuild, I don't fade, I don't break

There's a hollow that whispers my name
Soft enough to pull me under
If someone hears me through the haze
Tell me I still exist somewhere

Break, distort, ignite
I won't disappear
Nothing left inside
But I'm still here

I ignite the void so I don't fade out
Cold sparks learning how to breathe somehow
If the abyss starts calling my name
I scream in flames so I don't break
I'm the error that refused to die
A scar that learned how to outrun time
If the end redraws what's left of me
I rebuild, I don't fade, I don't break

And if everything in me gives way
Let it burn to be reborn one day