Fragments of Wound - 1989 - The Gone Kids

[verse 1] Shards on the pavement, voices scatter like glass— I trace the silence with broken shoes, the city coughs in static breaths. Every wound carries echoes, splinters hiding in the skin of night. [pre-chorus] The traffic lights stutter, red, green, never release. I carry pieces of myself, sharp enough to cut the air. [chorus – siren-vocal swell] Fragments of wound, they call my name in whispers. Fragments of wound, they bleed into the daylight. [siren-vocal swell – layered voices climbing, breaking into scream] And I can’t erase it, the sound of breaking glass still hunts me. [verse 2] Billboards flicker lies in neon, but I only see the cracks. Hands reach but never hold, faces blur like smoke. [spoken whisper] This is the silence of a war inside, a war no anthem will admit. [bridge – instrumental swell, guitars feedback] Every corner is a memory, every shadow holds a scream. [siren-vocal swell – elongated, ghostly, fading into reverb] We carry our ruins like medals, rusted but heavy on the chest. [chorus – more desperate] Fragments of wound, falling into siren songs. Fragments of wound, stitched in my skin forever. [siren-vocal swell – collective shout, collapsing into silence] [outro – shoegaze drone] I walk alone through shattered lines, not healing, not whole, only fragments, only wounds.