Too Dead 2 Live

[Verse 1] [aggressive, strained vocals] [drop-tuned guitar riff] The walls are breathing, closing in on me A hollow shell adrift in infinity No signal left, no voice to break the d⸮ÆTHERICark Just static noise where once there beat a heart The stars look down with cold, indifferent eyes A billion suns that watched as something dies I scream into the void — it screams back louder My bones dissolve to nothing, ash to powder [Pre-Chorus] [building tension, rhythmic chugging] I am the space between the stars I am the wound that never scars I am the end of every thought The war already lost — already fought [Chorus] [full breakdown, harsh and clean vocal blend] SWALLOWED BY THE DARK BETWEEN THE WORLDS MY MIND UNRAVELS AS THE COSMOS SWIRLS NO HAND TO HOLD, NO GOD TO HEAR MY NAME JUST ENDLESS VOID — AND I HAVE GONE INSANE The universe is hollow — so am I Too dead to live, too broken left to die [Verse 2] [tight, precise metalcore rhythm] I map the cracks inside my ceiling's face A constellation built on empty space Orion's belt is closer than your touch I never needed much — I needed much The ancient ones were right — we are alone This flesh a cage, this mind a crumbling throne The black hole at my chest expands each night Consuming memory, consuming light [Pre-Chorus] [building tension, rhythmic chugging] I am the space between the stars I am the wound that never scars I am the end of every thought The war already lost — already fought [Chorus] [full breakdown, harsh and clean vocal blend] SWALLOWED BY THE DARK BETWEEN THE WORLDS MY MIND UNRAVELS AS THE COSMOS SWIRLS NO HAND TO HOLD, NO GOD TO HEAR MY NAME JUST ENDLESS VOID — AND I HAVE GONE INSANE The universe is hollow — so am I Too dead to live, too broken left to die [Bridge] [slow, crushing breakdown, spoken word bleeding into screams] There is no bottom to this fall No echo answers when I call The galaxies have turned their backs My name erased — no fading tracks I used to have a face — I think I did A child behind the eyes — a screaming kid But something ate him whole years ago And wore his skin through the vertigo I AM NOTHING — I AM EVERYTHING THAT ROTS I AM THE SPACE YOUR SANITY FORGOT [building intensity] COLLAPSE — COLLAPSE — COLLAPSE INTO THE VOID THE PERSON THAT I WAS HAS BEEN DESTROYED [Chorus] [final, most intense iteration] SWALLOWED BY THE DARK BETWEEN THE WORLDS MY MIND UNRAVELS AS THE COSMOS SWIRLS NO HAND TO HOLD, NO GOD TO HEAR MY NAME JUST ENDLESS VOID — AND I HAVE GONE INSANE The universe is hollow — SO AM I TOO DEAD TO LIVE — TOO SHATTERED LEFT TO DIE [Outro] [slow, dissonant decay, single guitar fading] The light years stretch between me and myself My mind a book decaying on the shelf The stars don't mourn — they never knew I burned A dying sun — and no one ever turned ...to watch me go.