[Verse 1] I walk where heaven lost its name Through broken soil and withered rain The air is thick with ash and grief And every step still sinks in me [Verse 2] The bells don’t ring, they only moan For all the souls that died alone I keep their silence in my hands Like shattered bone and burial sand [Pre-Chorus] No light has called me back No dawn has stayed for long I learned to breathe inside the dark And drag the night along [Chorus] Only the dead speak Only the dead know How deep the roots of sorrow run How far the lost can go Only the dead call Only the dead reach I hear them in the hollow earth Where no one else will speak [Verse 3] Their voices drip through rotted stone Like prayers too late to make it home They pull like chains beneath my skin A thousand graves I carry in [Pre-Chorus] No peace beneath these skies No mercy in this cold I am the hand that bears the weight Of all they could not hold [Chorus] Only the dead speak Only the dead know How deep the roots of sorrow run How far the lost can go Only the dead call Only the dead reach I hear them in the hollow earth Where no one else will speak [Bridge] If I was ever something else The grave has long erased it Now I am the dust between The names the world abandoned And every whisper in the mist Becomes another scar A choir made of endings Singing from the dark [Final Chorus] Only the dead speak Only the dead remain Their echoes crawl through every wound And bloom inside the pain Only the dead call Only the dead preach I walk among the buried ones And let their silence speak [Outro] So lay me with the nameless Beneath the blackened deep Until the world falls quiet And only the dead speak
