ALIVE

Lyrics by SyLeNs [Intro] If your heart beats... YOU ARE ALIVE!!! [Verse 1] The mirror cracks beneath a thousand unsaid names A labyrinth of panic, walking through the flames Every thought a vice, every breath a leaden weight Locked inside a prison where the walls anticipate the fall Shadows stretch across the margins of the mind Leaving only ruin where the light was blind A fractured membrane where the silence cuts too deep Burying the promises I swore I'd always keep [Pre Chorus] Is there a pulse beneath the heavy shroud? Is anyone listening to the quiet sound? Before the crushing silence pulls me underground! [Chorus] Swallowed by the shadow, choking on the grey! Every second bleeding all the light away! And just when the dark tries to pull me below! A blade of gold cuts through the veil and starts to glow! We are breathing! WE ARE ALIVE!!! [Japanese Bamboo Flute Solo] [Verse 2] The floorboards splinter under years of buried grief A phantom suffocating, begging for relief You think the silence is a safe place to hide? It’s just a graveyard for the soul inside! Counting every second like a ticking bomb Trading all the panic for a frozen calm Bleeding out the poison with a trembling pen Never going back to how I lived back then [Bridge] The air is thinning... the chest is caving in... Is this the moment where the darkness wins? Every memory an anchor dragging down the floor Wondering if I can take a heartbeat more The panic rising up to drown the fading spark Staring down the abyss in the FREEZING DARK! TEAR THE VEIL APART!!! LET THE LIGHT IN!!! DARKNESS DOES NOT HAVE TO SWALLOW YOU FROM WITHIN!!! [Guitar x Japanese Bamboo Flute Solo] [Final Chorus] Swallowed by the shadow, choking on the grey! Every second bleeding all the light away! And just when the dark tries to pull me below! A blade of gold cuts through the veil and starts to glow! We are breathing! WE ARE ALIVE!!! [Outro] The dark recedes... The chest expands... We breathe...