[Verse 1] Streetlights stutter, blink in code Veil’s unzipping down the road Air tastes like a bitten wire Static clings and climbs me higher Footsteps echo out of sync Shadows move before I think Something wearing someone’s face Glitching slow in borrowed grace [Pre-Chorus] It smiles wrong Like it learned from me Too many teeth In the memory [Chorus] I cut through the dream you stole Salt the wound, take back control You don’t get to wear her skin I know where you’ve never been Break your spine of borrowed light Drag you screaming out of sight You’re a hunger dressed in grief And I’m the end of every thief [Verse 2] Voices spill from open seams Children laughing inside screams It pulls names I used to know Tries to make me falter, slow “Isolden…” it says like prayer Like it’s always found me there But the cadence fractures thin Truth doesn rot that deep within [Pre-Chorus] It bends close Like it understands But it slips On what I am [Chorus] I cut through the dream you stole Salt the wound, take back control You don’t get to wear his voice Memory isn’t yours to choice Break your spine of stolen night Burn your script out of the light You’re a parasite in belief And I’m the end of every thief [Bridge] Veil splits open—white and wild It shows me her, it shows me child Every version I could be If I let it rewrite me But I am not the thing it takes Not the echo that it makes I am fracture, I am flame I remember every name [Breakdown / Drop] Come on then— Show me what you ate Show me every dream you break (beat fracture) I’ll carve it out I’ll rip it free You don’t get to live in me [Final Chorus] I cut through the dream you stole Salt the wound, reclaim the whole You don’t get to haunt my dead Get out of my goddamn head Break apart in borrowed grief Choke on everything you thief You were never more than need And I am what you cannot feed [Outro] Streetlights steady. Silence hums. Nothing left of what it was. Just salt ground into the seam— And one less ghost inside the dream.
