Hello (my brain is numb)

[Verse 1] Hello… Is there still anyone in there? Just nod if you can hear The static on the line… It’s been years since the streets went quiet, Since masks hid every face, And we locked our lives away in rooms While the world rearranged. [Pre-Chorus] I feel the weight of headlines Like shadows on my skin, The noise won’t stop, It just hums from within… [Chorus] My brain is numb… From the fear and the fighting, The endless dividing That swallows the sun. I’m coming undone… And the more that I’m feeling, The less I can reason— My brain is numb. [Verse 2] There’s a war on the screen every morning, And another one they say might come… I’m not sure which one I should pray for, When the sky feels like a loaded gun. We’ve all been drifting in circles, Tethered by invisible chains, Talking louder but hearing nothing, Each in our separate pain. [Pre-Chorus] I hear the sirens calling, Though no one’s at my door, It’s like the world forgot What we were living for… [Chorus] My brain is numb… From the fear and the fighting, The endless dividing That swallows the sun. I’m coming undone… [Bridge – Instrumental Space] (Long, bending guitar notes… sustained like distant sirens…) (Echoed, whispered voices fading in and out, like radio static:) “…stay inside…” “…flatten the curve…” “…breaking news…” “…another strike…” [Outro] Hello… If the silence could save me, I’d turn the whole world down. But it’s still there, Always there— And I can’t drown it out… [Pre-Chorus] I feel the weight of headlines Like shadows on my skin, The noise won’t stop, It just hums from within… [Chorus] My brain is numb… From the fear and the fighting, The endless dividing That swallows the sun. I’m coming undone… And the more that I’m feeling, The less I can reason— My brain is numb. [Dramatic Climatic Instrumental Close]