╔══════════════════════════════╗ 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓 Ⅲ 🚪 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘 🚪 ╚══════════════════════════════╝ There was a door where the wall had been A little light underneath the frame I felt the air getting thin again Like something was pulling the world away ━━━━━━━━━━ 🚪 ━━━━━━━━━━ A crooked frame and a faded sign A hundred names from another time One scratched away till the stone turned white Like somebody tried to erase a life The lights went low, then the floor went still A window cracked on the windowsill I passed it twice, then a third time through Same broken glass, but a different view I watched the shadows stretch out of place The hands on the clock wouldn’t turn or change ◷ And every corner I tried to take Led back to the mark that I’d made in the paint ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ ╱ ╲ I feel the pressure underneath my skin The air gets heavy when the walls cave in I turn around where the doorway stood And there’s nothing there but a wall of wood. ━━━━━━━━━━ ◫ ━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐖𝐄’𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄, 𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 Running till the lights burn out Every time we’re almost there The walls come folding down And we’re fading slowly, slowly Like a name beneath the ground If the world forgets we made it here 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐈𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃? We’re going nowhere, nowhere And there’s no way back around. 🚪 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ A coat in the dust by a broken stair A photograph folded and left in there A younger face with a crooked smile And a date from the start of the term gone by I heard a cry from the other side A familiar voice with a hollow bite A figure stood where the lights went dim With a borrowed face and a borrowed skin The lips moved first, then the words came late The shadow stretched in a different shape I felt the floor start to separate And the ceiling bend under its own weight ╲ ╲ ╲ ◫ ╱ ╱ ╱ I feel the pressure underneath my skin The air gets heavy when the walls cave in I try to follow the way we came But the whole damn hallway 𝐇𝐀𝐒 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐄𝐃 𝐀𝐆𝐀𝐈𝐍. ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐖𝐄’𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄, 𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 Running till the lights burn out Every time we’re almost there The walls come folding down And we’re fading slowly, slowly Like a name beneath the ground If the world forgets we made it here 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐈𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃? We’re going nowhere, nowhere And there’s no way back around. ━━━━━━━━━━ ❄ ━━━━━━━━━━ There’s a handprint underneath the dust A silver watch gone red with rust A broken step, an empty space Then every trace gets swept away And every time the ceiling cracks I feel a pulse beneath my back It beats in time against my chest Like something I haven’t understood yet ◷ The air turns white The floor turns blue A frozen light comes breaking through ❄ For just a breath The stones stay still Then every wall 𝐁𝐄𝐆𝐈𝐍𝐒 𝐓𝐎 𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐋𝐋. ╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲╱╲ The ice gives way beneath my feet The corridor folds into the ceiling I reach for something I can’t see And feel the world give way beneath me One final step A blinding light The sound comes rushing back to life I hit the ground I catch my breath And nothing’s where I thought I’d left it ━━━━━━━━━━ 🚪 ━━━━━━━━━━ 𝐖𝐄’𝐑𝐄 𝐆𝐎𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄, 𝐍𝐎𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 Running till the lights burn out Every time we’re almost there The walls come folding down And we’re fading slowly, slowly Like a name beneath the ground If the world forgets we made it here 𝐖𝐎𝐔𝐋𝐃 𝐈𝐓 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄 𝐀 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐃? We’re going nowhere, nowhere 𝐁𝐔𝐓 𝐒𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐇𝐎𝐖 𝐖𝐄 𝐌𝐀𝐃𝐄 𝐈𝐓 𝐎𝐔𝐓. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The paint is dry The clocks are right ◷ No broken glass No warning signs No folded coat No names remain No proof of anything erased I made it out I know I did I feel the cold beneath my skin ❄ And every time I close my eyes… ╔══════════════════════╗ ║ ║ ║ 🚪 ║ ║ ║ ╚══════════════════════╝ 𝐓𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐔𝐏 𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄. ◷ 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓 CHAPTER III 「 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐕𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐇𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐖𝐀𝐘 」 🚪
