**[Intro — sparse, atmospheric]** There is a place beneath me Nobody has ever seen. I built it slowly With everything I couldn't say. --- **[Verse 1]** I learned to live beside the silence While the house stayed awake I learned to hide the things that hurt me In the words I couldn't say I grew older with a shadow That followed every step Every year became a room I was afraid to enter yet I remember being younger But I don't remember feeling free There was always something waiting Somewhere underneath me --- **[Pre-Chorus]** I kept walking Like nothing followed me But every road I took Led back to what I couldn't leave --- **[Chorus]** There's a place beneath me Where the cold will never leave Where every broken part of me Still remembers how to breathe There's a place beneath me Where I go when I disappear It's deeper than the darkness And somehow I'm still here --- **[Verse 2]** I became good at pretending That the past was far away But the smallest sound could bring me Back to another day There were nights I felt like nothing There were days I felt too much I could stand among a thousand people And still feel no one's touch I watched myself becoming someone I never meant to be Trying to build a life On a foundation underneath --- **[Pre-Chorus]** Every time I tried to run The road would lead me back To every version of myself I buried in the past --- **[Chorus]** There's a place beneath me Where the cold will never leave Where every broken part of me Still remembers how to breathe There's a place beneath me Where I go when I disappear It's deeper than the darkness And somehow I'm still here --- **[Bridge — very quiet]** Maybe hell was never fire. Maybe hell was remembering. The things I couldn't change. The words I never answered. The years I couldn't escape. The person I could have been. Maybe the deepest place Was never underneath the ground. **It was inside me.** --- **[Breakdown — slow, heavy]** I carried the child. I carried the fear. I carried the silence. I carried the years. I carried the anger. I carried the shame. I carried every version Of the person I became. And nobody saw it. Nobody knew. **But I was there.** **I was always there.** --- **[Final Chorus — huge but melancholic]** There's a place beneath me Where the cold still remains But I finally stopped pretending I could bury all the pain There's a place beneath me And I know its every door Half my life I've spent escaping Now I don't run anymore No angels No demons No miracle above Just a man standing alone With everything he was And if this is my darkness I'll learn to see inside Because everything I buried Is still a part of my life --- **[Outro — extremely sparse]** There is a place beneath me. I know it now. I don't have to live there. I don't have to be afraid Of finding it anymore. **I can finally turn around.**
