[Intro] I hear the clock beneath my skin Counting bones instead of seconds Every breath comes crawling in Like a debt that needs collecting [Verse 1] I used to think the end was far Some black dot past the tree line Something waiting in the dark Not something walking beside me But lately mirrors tell the truth In ways my pride can’t argue There’s silver hiding in the roots And old ghosts in the rearview My hands have held a lot of things Love and loss and bad decisions Prayers I whispered through my teeth And sins I dressed up as reasons [Pre-Chorus] I don’t fear the grave as much As leaving words unsaid I don’t fear the dirt below I fear who I forget [Chorus] I am facing mortality Staring through the veil at me Every heartbeat sounds like thunder Every scar becomes a prophecy I am facing mortality Not begging for eternity Just one more chance to mean something Before the silence buries me [Verse 2] I have wasted days like coins Thrown into a dead black fountain Chasing noise to kill the voice That kept asking what I’m counting I built walls around my soul Called them strength until they cracked Now the echoes feel like home And I can’t take the silence back There are faces I still see When the room goes cold and hollow Some I hurt, and some hurt me Some I’d give my bones to follow [Pre-Chorus] I don’t fear the final breath As much as wasted air I don’t fear the lights going out I fear I wasn’t there [Chorus] I am facing mortality Staring through the veil at me Every heartbeat sounds like thunder Every scar becomes a prophecy I am facing mortality Not begging for eternity Just one more chance to mean something Before the silence buries me [Bridge] If death is a doorway Then life is the hall And I have been crawling With my hands on the walls If time is a weapon It’s pointed at all No crown and no kingdom Can soften the fall So let me love harder Let me speak clean Let me forgive what I buried beneath Let me stand honest Let me bleed real Let me stop hiding from everything I feel [Breakdown] I am not ready But I am awake I feel the ending In every mistake I am not holy I am not clean But I am more than The worst parts of me [Final Chorus] I am facing mortality Staring through the veil at me Every heartbeat sounds like thunder Every scar becomes a prophecy I am facing mortality Not begging for eternity Just one more chance to mean something Before the silence buries me [Outro] When the dark comes to carry me Let it find me on my feet Not a man who ran from death But one who learned to live before he leaves
