[Intro — nearly whispered, distant, breath trembling] I remember being someone... I think. There was a warmth in my chest once. A name I answered to. A reason to open my eyes. (ohhh... mmm...) But something came here before me... And took it all. [Verse 1 — low, hollow baritone, restrained anguish] I wore my skin like borrowed clothes, Walked through rooms where nobody knows The shape of a man who's already gone, Still breathing underneath the dawn. I learned that mercy has a price, And innocence don't make you right. They carved their lessons into my bones, Then left me somewhere I called home. Now every mirror looks away, Like even my reflection's ashamed. I open my mouth, but nothing comes— Just the sound of what I've become. [Pre-Chorus — building, cracked vocals] And I don't know When I stopped feeling... I don't know What they left inside... (ahhhhhh...) I hear the world outside my window, But it sounds a million miles away. [Chorus — huge, tortured, soulful] Something inside me died without a grave, No angel came, no hand was raised. They broke the part that wanted to believe, Then wondered why there was nothing left to save. I became the silence after the scream, The shadow standing where a man had been. If there was a soul inside of me... I don't know where it went. (oooooh...) I don't know where it went... [Verse 2 — darker, almost spoken] I stopped believing pain meant something. Stopped believing wrong from right. You can stare into the abyss so long You forget which side you're on at night. I watched good people turn their heads. Watched cowards call themselves kind. Watched every promise rot to nothing While I swallowed every lie. And somewhere underneath it all, There was a voice that begged me: "Don't become them. Don't become them." But I was tired. (so tired...) So I buried that voice Where nobody could hear it. [Chorus — more fractured, vocals breaking] Something inside me died without a grave, No angel came, no hand was raised. They broke the part that wanted to believe, Then wondered why there was nothing left to save. I became the silence after the scream, The shadow standing where a man had been. If there was a soul inside of me... I don't know where it went. [Bridge — sparse, unsettling, almost completely naked] Don't call me evil... You don't know what you made. Don't call me empty... You emptied me. Don't ask me why I don't feel your pain. I spent years feeling everybody else's. (ahhhh...) And now... There's nothing knocking from the other side. [Breakdown — whispered voices underneath, progressively heavier] I remember the first time I cried. I remember the last time I cared. I remember standing at the door... And choosing not to go back. (Go back...) (Go back...) (I can't...) [Final Chorus — enormous, desperate, almost collapsing] Something inside me died without a grave, And I carried the corpse through every day. I tried to love, I tried to forgive, But every road led back to what they did. Now I'm a stranger wearing my own face, A heartbeat trapped inside an empty place. If there was a soul inside of me... I don't know where it went. I don't know where it went. I don't... [Outro — fading, barely audible] Maybe it didn't die. Maybe it learned how not to answer. (mmm...) Maybe it's still down there... Waiting... For me to remember what I was. [whisper] I don't remember.
