[Verse] Twenty-five years walking into funerals Watching them fall one by one Every time that marching sound in your head again Feels like the next one’s already yours Stumbling through the city after midnight All the faces fade into shades Shadows reach out, hands around your throat Pressing on your temples, drilling migraines [Chorus] Twenty-five years sober Holding the line alone All the faces you remember Turned into names in stone Thirty-five years breathing With a grave inside my chest One word saved my heartbeat Their silence did the rest [Verse] Twenty-five years digging through memory You and the shadows roam empty blocks They grin and try to tear you open Echoing laughs at a funeral waltz Then you see them, kids in the kitchen First smoke, first taste of escape Then darkness, walls crying in fog As their veins learned how to break [Chorus] Twenty-five years sober Holding the line alone All the faces you remember Turned into names in stone Thirty-five years breathing With a grave inside my chest One word saved my heartbeat Their silence did the rest [Verse] Curtains closed in an empty apartment You’re half drunk, shadows tie up your hands Their voices crawl through neural fibers Offering peace from the boredom that lasts Faces melt like burning candles You walk through smoke, it turns wrong No kids, no faces - only shadows And their souls are already screaming gone [Chorus] Twenty-five years sober Holding the line alone All the faces you remember Turned into names in stone Thirty-five years breathing With a grave inside my chest One word saved my heartbeat Their silence did the rest
