Fade out to Darkness

[Verse 1] When the night comes and you want to disappear Tell me, what do you do? Maybe it’s a foolish question You don’t wish to vanish, do you But the death I speak of isn’t the end of life It’s the perfect erasure of “me” No trace, no shadow, no memory left behind There’s no knot tying me to anything ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] I knelt before the theorem of love I traced the laws of life and death But tell me, on the nights you want to disappear Do you ever feel it too? ⸻ [Chorus] On the nights you want to die Tell me where you hide Do those nights exist for you Or is it only mine ⸻ [Verse 2] I won’t list complaints or petty discontent I lack something human to even speak that way Most of what I say dissolves into obsession This “self” is too uncertain to define Just a shadow and a fragile outline A puppet, nothing more There are no seams left to hold me together I’m already coming undone ⸻ [Pre-Chorus] In the arguments of good and evil What is ever absolute? Set aside the personal for a moment Tell me, what is truth? ⸻ [Chorus] On the nights you want to die Tell me where you hide Do those nights exist for you Or is it only mine ⸻ [Bridge] Cheap tragedies, recycled pain Talk of justice, loss, and gain The same old sorrow, the same old hate History keeps its mouth shut again Darkness comes to take me home My heart makes a crushing sound No one sees, no one cares Until it makes the headlines “They weren’t such a bad person” That’s what they always say But in the end, we only care About ourselves anyway ⸻ [Verse 3] People can’t believe There’s something unknown inside themselves So they pretend it isn’t there Compliance lives on the surface Words without a soul All for the sake of sponsors Never knowing how it feels to be crushed Backstreets whisper truth instead Cruel words cut deeper there “I’m still better than them,” they say Just to calm their own despair ⸻ [Break] This fragile shape called society Break the mold and you don’t survive Nations, systems—human violence There are things far worse than war Someone once said The earth was simply blue ⸻ [Chorus - Variation] This world is hell The next, maybe heaven On the nights you want to disappear Tell me what you do ⸻ [Outro - Transformation] Monsters breaking through my eyes Creatures crawling through my breath Seven hands, nine twisted legs A shattered face, reborn in pain I’ll come to greet you soon Good morning, hello A monster passes by You’ll feel uneasy, won’t you? If you’re a wicked soul I’ll make you just like me If you’re a gentle one Unlock your heart with a golden key ⸻ [Final] On the nights you want to die Do you ever feel it too? It’s time now… I’m fading into the dark