[Intro] Something's dying Can't revive it Something's fading Can't survive it [Verse 1] Sitting in the wreckage of a thought I can't complete Reconstructing yesterday from fragments incomplete Every recollection contradicts the one before Memory's a weapon I keep turning on myself more Built a version of my history from scraps I think occurred Now I'm living in the aftermath, treating fiction as the word Absolute, immutable, carved into the bone When really it's just speculation I've been claiming as my own Can't distinguish what I know from what I've fabricated clean Can't separate the actual from everything between The truth and the distortion I've constructed as defense Against a threat that doesn't exist except in past tense [Chorus] CPR for your MIND Before you lose what's left inside CPR for your MIND Before there's nothing left to find Resuscitate Before it's gone Resuscitate Before too long [Verse 2] Wake up suffocating in a narrative I wrote Where every protagonist is guilty, every word becomes a throat Closing opportunity to breathe or to escape The verdict I delivered on myself without debate So I cement it into doctrine, let it harden into law Until the person that I am is just a product of the flaw I've decided is my essence, is my core, is what defines Everything about my past and everything that undermines My future, my potential, my ability to change Because I've locked myself inside a cell and lost the range Of motion, lost the possibility of something different now Committed to the story even though I don't know how [Chorus] CPR for your MIND Call the part that's buried deep inside CPR for your MIND Pause the death you've amplified Resuscitate Before it's gone Resuscitate Before too long [Bridge] Call something out Pause the descent Respond to anything Before it's spent Memory's corrupted Illusion's taken over Getting colder Getting colder [Verse 3] I need a shock, a rupture, something violent enough to break The pattern that I'm following, the path that I can't shake No matter how destructive, how obviously it fails I keep walking down the same corridor, the same derails Operating on the assumption that the worst is always true That the person I've constructed from the ashes is the real you When really it's just fiction, just a story I've rehearsed Until I can't remember what existed here first Before I filled the space with poison I've been calling truth With certainty about my flaws, with manufactured proof That I'm fundamentally damaged, that there's something deeply wrong When really I've just been singing the same terrible song For so long that I forgot I wrote the lyrics in the first place Forgot I chose the melody, forgot I set the pace Of my own deterioration, my own carefully designed Collapse into the person I've been feeding to my MIND [Final Chorus] CPR for your MIND Call the part that's barely still inside CPR for your MIND Respond before there's nothing left to find Memory needs extraction Illusion needs retraction Doubt needs subtraction Before the final contraction CPR for your MIND CPR for your MIND [Outro] Call Pause Respond Before it's gone Before it's gone [End]
