[Intro] I learned to keep it in my teeth Let it sit there, sharp and neat [Pre-Chorus] My jaw stays locked, my hands stay still I let the hard thing split the fill One more breath, then I go quiet Before it turns into a riot [Verse 1] I carry rage beneath my tongue A prayer turned ash, a song undone The night leans close and names my scars As if it knew my broken heart [Verse 2] I learned to smile with hollow eyes To hide the storm, to swallow cries But every pulse that beats in me Is losing hope too quietly [Verse 3] My heart was built from cracked glass words Too sharp for love, too hard for hurt It cut the hands that tried to stay And bled the light away [Verse 4] Whenever shadows bruise the sky I hear the old wounds answer why The dark becomes a second skin A place where all the pain lives in [Pre-Chorus] My jaw stays locked, my hands stay still I let the hard thing split the fill One more breath, then I go quiet Before it turns into a riot [Hook] I bite back words till they cut clean Still carrying all that rage underneath [Verse 5] I hate the rage I cannot lose It wears my face, it steals my truth It whispers, “Let the ending come” And leaves my courage deaf and numb [Verse 6] There’s a girl I loved in softer days A boy who knew my hidden prayer Now both are ghosts inside my chest Two hearts that never learned to rest [Verse 7] She held my hands like fragile flame I held the knife, I took the blame We loved like winter loves the sea Cold, endless, and tragically [Verse 8] He said my name like it could mend The fractures time refused to end But every vow the dark had heard Turned into one more bitter word [Verse 9] I walk through rooms of silent dread Where all the things I lost are fed By memory, by shame, by grief By every stolen last belief [Verse 10] The ceiling hangs like ruined stone The moon looks tired, the heart alone And in the black, I start to know How deep a wounded soul can go [Pre-Chorus] My jaw stays locked, my hands stay still I let the hard thing split the fill One more breath, then I go quiet Before it turns into a riot [Hook] I bite back words till they cut clean Still carrying all that rage underneath [Verse 11] I keep the ghosts I cannot bury Their names still bloom in every worry A tragic choir in my mind Of all the love I left behind [Verse 12] The world keeps turning, cold and fast While I am chained to what won't pass A heartbeat trapped in midnight's snare A life that learned to live in fear [Verse 13] My darkness has a human face It sits with me in empty space It tells me sorrow is a home And leaves me there to rot alone [Verse 14] But hearts can shatter, then remain A map of beauty carved by pain So even in the blackest blur I feel the echo of her [Verse 15] I saw her laugh in fractured light Before the shadow won the fight Her tenderness, a dying star Still burns inside my ruined heart [Pre-Chorus] My jaw stays locked, my hands stay still I let the hard thing split the fill One more breath, then I go quiet Before it turns into a riot [Hook] I bite back words till they cut clean Still carrying all that rage underneath [Verse 16] I heard his voice in thunderstorms A warmth that never kept me warm Now every echo in the dark Is just another missing spark [Verse 17] The tragic thing about this night Is how it taught me wrong from right I knew the love, I knew the cost I knew the hearts that I had lost [Verse 18] I wear my sorrow like a chain A polished scar, a sacred pain And every link remembers well The stories that my silence tells [Verse 19] If there is mercy, let it come For all the cruel things I have done For all the love I let decay For all the names I pushed away [Verse 20] The mindset in my bones is bleak I speak to shadows when I speak I measure hope in fragile threads And rest my head among the dead [Pre-Chorus] My jaw stays locked, my hands stay still I let the hard thing split the fill One more breath, then I go quiet Before it turns into a riot [Hook] I bite back words till they cut clean Still carrying all that rage underneath [Verse 21] Yet in the wreck of what we were A tiny truth begins to stir That hearts, though bruised and nearly drowned Can still beat once they hit the ground [Verse 22] So I stay honest with the night I do not call the dark “all right” I only say it knows my face And taught me grief a deeper grace [Verse 23] The story of our hearts is this: A vow, a bruise, a vanished kiss Two lives that burned too fast, too bright And made a cathedral of the night [Verse 24] If anyone should ask of me I am the storm they cannot see A tragic mind in shadowed bloom A candle left to fight the room [Verse 25] And when the shadows of darkness rise You’ll find my heart behind my eyes Still beating through the grief and scar Still searching for who we are [Outro] So I unlace the words I kept Set them down where sorrow slept If they cut, let them cut through I’m still here, and I broke through
