[Intro | low rumble | distant metallic creak] We dropped in like sparks— bright / brief / together— thought we’d burn through anything didn’t think about forever— [Verse 1 | tight chugs | controlled] The walls started breathing first tight lungs made of wire and stone every step echoed back wrong like the place had learned our tone We moved like a single shape edges locked / no space between now the seams are starting to split— something’s slipping through the seams [Pre-Chorus | tense | coiled] You learn not to look behind when the dark begins to keep You learn not to count the shadows— they don’t match what you should see [Chorus | crushing | wide] WE KEEP PUSHING INTO TEETH AND STEEL WE KEEP FIRING AT WHAT WE CAN’T FEEL ONE BY ONE— THE LIGHTS GO OUT OF VIEW AND THERE’S LESS OF US BREAKING THROUGH [Verse 2 | stop-start | heavier] The air tastes thin and borrowed now like it’s already been used every sound arrives too late every signal half-confused The ground feels soft in places like it remembers where we stood like it’s keeping what we lose— like it always knew it would [Pre-Chorus | quieter | dread] You stop saying who you lost just “it shifted” / just “it’s gone” You stop marking where they fell— there’s too many to hold on [Chorus | wider | more desperate] WE KEEP PUSHING INTO TEETH AND STEEL WE KEEP FIRING AT WHAT WE CAN’T FEEL ONE BY ONE— THE LIGHTS GO OUT OF VIEW AND THERE’S LESS OF US BREAKING THROUGH [Breakdown | half-time | suffocating] Count the shapes— (…they move…) Count again— Not the same— Too close— Too many— [HIT] Gone— [Bridge | eerie calm | hollow] The dark doesn’t rush you— it learns how you stand it waits in the spaces you don’t understand It doesn’t need all of you— just enough each time until what’s left walking is no longer a line [Final Chorus | collapsing | exposed] WE KEEP PUSHING BUT THE SHAPE WON’T HOLD WE KEEP FIRING INTO SOMETHING COLD ONE BY ONE— WE’RE CUT DOWN TO FEW AND THERE’S LESS OF US COMING THROUGH [Outro | fading | distant echo] We were fire once— …now we’re just what it left behind.
