House Fire

[Intro - Distant, Distorted] Days... Years... Same pain. Different fucking day. Something's burning. [Verse 1] Days turned to years, years turned into weight, Pain piled up so high I forgot where it came Every room in my soul got a fire in the walls, Smoke in my lungs every time that I talk House full of memories, flames in the frame, Every hallway got a ghost attached to a name Ceiling starts shaking, floor starts cracking, Everything I buried underneath starts crawling back in Chains on my ankles, shackles dragging behind, Every step that I take leaves a mark in my mind I can hear metal scraping every time that I move, Like the past got a lock and it swallowed the key too I'm trapped in a house that I built out of pain, Watching sparks hit the floor while I stand in the flames Tried to keep it contained, tried to keep it controlled, But you can't hold an inferno inside one fucking soul [Hook] House fire... Burning inside me. Smoke in my chest, Flames I can't hide. Chains on my ankles, Can't run from the heat, Every step that I take Makes the shackles repeat. House fire... Whole structure's shaking. Years of pain And the pressure keeps breaking. Something's gonna give, I can feel it in the walls, Too much fire in the soul for the house to hold it all. [Verse 2] The fire starts small, then it spreads through the rooms, Turns the memories black, turns the oxygen blue Kitchen full of anger, bedroom full of regret, Living room full of people I ain't ready to forget Every window's boarded, every exit's obstructed, Every time I try escaping, something pulls me back under Chains drag sparks across the floor when I walk, Metal clanging through the silence every time that I talk I don't even know which flame started first, Was it anger? Was it grief? Was it years of getting hurt? Now they're all feeding each other, one spark from another, And I'm standing in the middle watching everything smother No firefighters coming, no water in sight, Just smoke getting thicker while I fight through the night And the walls keep groaning like they know what's coming, Like the whole damn house can feel the fuse running [Hook] House fire... Burning inside me. Smoke in my chest, Flames I can't hide. Chains on my ankles, Can't run from the heat, Every step that I take Makes the shackles repeat. House fire... Whole structure's shaking. Years of pain And the pressure keeps breaking. Something's gonna give, I can feel it in the walls, Too much fire in the soul for the house to hold it all. [Verse 3] Then the silence hits right before the explosion, One second everything's still, next second everything's broken Pressure built for years, now the walls can't contain it, All the pain I kept locked up finally detonated BOOM. Roof gone. Windows shattered. Ash in the air. Everything scattered. Not because I wanted destruction, Because pressure has a limit, And when you lock enough fire inside, eventually something gives. Chains still hanging from the rubble, Shackles twisted in the heat, And I'm standing in the wreckage looking down at my own feet Years of pain don't disappear just because the structure falls, Sometimes burning down the house only shows you what was in the walls [Bridge - Quiet, Echoing] Days became years. Years became chains. Chains became fire. Fire became everything. [Final Hook] House fire... Still burning inside me. Smoke in my chest, Nothing left to hide. Chains on my ankles, Dragging through the debris, Every piece of that old house still attached to me. House fire... I can still feel the heat. Years of pain underneath every beat. The explosion came, but the silence after hurts more. Standing in the ashes of what I was before. [Outro - Whispered] Days. Years. Pain. Fire. Chains. And somewhere underneath it all... something is still burning.