[Intro] (faint room tone, distant water, restrained and narrow) Breath on the tile Hands already sore [Verse 1] On my knees on a cold white floor Soap and water, nothing more Every mark I try to erase Spreads like doubt across the space Gray runs down into the drain I scrub harder, feel the blame If it’s still here, it must be me Something wrong that I can’t see [Pre-Chorus] We polish the hurt We punish and blame But the harder we work The darker the stain [Chorus] We're scrubbing at shadows Calling them scars Fighting the dark Like it’s something we are Keep wasting our strength On what isn’t there Mistaking the absence Of light for despair [Verse 2] Buckets empty, hands are raw Every corner, every flaw We’ve memorized the shape of wrong Been staring at it far too long Every echo feeds the fear That the dirt is deeper here If we stop, will it remain? If we rest, do we let it win? [Pre-Chorus] We circle the proof We study the night But nothing we do Invites in the light [Chorus] Still scrubbing at shadows Calling them stains Naming the dark Like it’s ours to contain Keep breaking our backs On a lie we believed That the dark has a substance We need to defeat [Bridge] (shift — space opens, air enters) A crack in the wall A loosened blind Morning doesn’t ask permission It just arrives No resistance No demand Just the truth Where we stand [Bridge 2] We didn’t chase it out Didn’t raise our voice Didn’t win a fight We just made a choice Turned our faces Toward the day And the shadows Just slipped away [Final Chorus] We're done scrubbing at shadows They vanished from sight All of that fear Couldn’t live in the light We didn’t defeat it Just remembered anew Darkness is empty When daylight moves through [Outro] (room fully open, warm resonance) Same floor Same hands A brighter room
