Official Music Video: https://youtu.be/VM3CCmy8T3U?is=uhMaOb0LAAjR1Lyl [Intro — Entity] You call it a quiet room. I call it somewhere to speak. [Verse 1A — Entity] I arrive before the daylight, sit behind your eyes Turn a half-read little message to a funeral in disguise “She is busy” sounds too simple, I redraw it as contempt Let that pause become a sentence, let your trust become defendant When they wrap their arms around you, I can sour every thread Make their warmth feel calculated, make you freeze inside the bed I don’t need a blade or thunder, I can ruin you with doubt Just one whisper in your bloodstream: “What if love is wearing out?” [Verse 1B — Host] Why are you here when things were finally growing still? Why turn every safe place to a window on a hill? They held me without asking for a debt I couldn’t pay I was learning how to breathe again, you drag me back to yesterday You call fear a kind of wisdom, call suspicion self-defense But you leave me with the wreckage and insist that it makes sense I know pain once shaped your language, I know where you were born But you don’t get to build a home from every open wound I mourn [Pre-Chorus — Entity + Host] [Entity] You need me; I keep watch when everybody lies. [Host] You keep me awake and call exhaustion being wise. [Entity] I only show the truth behind the pretty little act. [Host] You take a shadow on the wall and sign it “fact.” [Chorus — Back and forth] [Entity] I’m the voice in your borderline, carve knives on the fault line. [Host] You’re the echo in my trauma, not the core of my design. [Entity] Every text, every touch, I can twist until it bites. [Host] But a feeling isn’t evidence, and fear is not my rights. [Entity] I turn “maybe” into mayhem, paint devotion into dread. [Host] You are noise inside the storm, not the truth inside my head. [Verse 2A — Entity] I know every private trigger, every crack beneath your skin I can smell the storm approaching, know exactly where to begin When you start to fear abandonment, I accelerate the spin Say, “They’re just like all the others,” and you let the fire in I suggest self-harm like ritual, proof etched into your flesh Sell you scars as conversation pieces, trauma written fresh Then I stand behind the damage, smiling softly at the scene While you carry all the blame for everywhere that I have been [Verse 2B — Host] Stop. Pain doesn’t need proof carved in flesh to count. I can say, “I’m not okay,” without burning my life down. I can call someone who loves me, choose a safer kind of care I can step away from edges when you drag me toward despair You mistake intensity for love, fear for prophecy and law But calm is not abandonment, peace is not a fatal flaw I am more than every episode and every night I lost I refuse to see my value through the damage that it cost [Breakdown — Table, face to face] [Entity] Without me, who will warn you? [Host] Someone can warn me without making me afraid. [Entity] Without me, who will protect you? [Host] Protection doesn’t have to look like pain. [Entity] I was built from every wound they gave you. [Host] I know. That’s why I won’t hate you. [Entity] Then why are you locking me out? [Host] I’m not. I’m taking back the house. [Bridge] [Entity] They called you “too much,” I learned the words by heart Threw their stones so many times, I became the throwing arm I was made inside the wreckage, raised beneath alarm [Host] But you are not the whole of me, and hurt is not my form I can face what I’ve destroyed without letting you move in I can seek a voice, a room, a place I’m safe to begin Every time I choose that life, you lose a little reach— Your script cracks Your grip slips You fade behind my speech [Final Chorus] [Entity] I’m the voice in your borderline, carve knives on the fault line. [Host] You’re the learned hallucination, not the author of my mind. [Entity] I don’t wait for bad days, I create them in your head. [Host] I can name you when you’re speaking and choose another thread. [Together] There’s a war behind my eyes, but that war is not my name. [Host] I can hear you in the dark— [Entity, fading] You still don’t own the flame. [Host] Watch me
