[Intro – Whispered, almost spoken] I thought I heard the morning call, the sound of home beyond these walls. For a breath, the chains were gone... but some lies sing like siren songs. [Verse 1 – Low spoken, slow pacing] Air like rust, the lights don’t blink, paint peeled back to bone and brick. I trace the cracks above my head, a grave for the living, a room for the dead. Footsteps bleed through concrete veins, keys like teeth that chew my name. I mouth a prayer to a ceiling stain, it doesn’t answer...Only rains. [Pre-Chorus – Breathier clean] I hold my breath until it hurts, count to four to stop the dirt, tell myself it’s only sleep~ but sleep is where the razors creep. [Chorus – Mournful clean, heavy] When I wake, the dream dissolves; I’m still a prisoner, never solved. Dawn deceives, then slips away, and leaves me clawing at the cage. [Verse 2 – Whisper to rasp] The tap drips time I cannot keep, the clock is broken, nights don’t sleep. I hum a song no mouth will hear, to drown the hum of buzzing fear. Walls lean in like listening men, every shadow knows me then. I fold my hands like paper birds, they burn to ash without a word. [Pre-Chorus – Tighter, urgent] Breathe in—two—three—four— hold the tide behind the door; breathe out—two—three—four— count the ghosts across the floor. [Chorus – Heavier, layered cries] When I wake, the dream dissolves; I’m still a prisoner, never solved. Dawn deceives, it breaks, it fades, and leaves me clawing at the cage. [Bridge A – Desperate build] I reach for a door that isn’t there, a window with a vacant stare. Light touched my face, then ran like rain and dragged me back to iron pain. [Verse 3 – Spoken confessional] I whisper names that kept me sane, they echo back with someone else’s blame. The mattress holds the shape I make, a chalk-line I can’t help but trace. My pulse becomes the metronome, that measures out a smaller home. The breath between the bars I take is rented air I can’t escape. [Break – Anxiety motif, whispered counting] (One—two—three—four… one—two—three—four…) Don’t think / don’t feel / just count the roar. (One—two—three—four…) [Bridge B – Whisper, harsh layer] No doors, no keys, just echoing breath, every step I take, I march with death. Walls close in, the ceiling falls, no voice to answer when I call. [Pre-Final Chorus – Half-sung, strained] If dawn was real, it would have stayed; if home could speak, it lost my name. The morning’s mouth is full of glass it smiles and cuts me as I pass. [Final Chorus – Distorted, overlapping whispers + cleans] When I wake, I choke on chains, dreams dissolve but the pain remains. Every heartbeat caged inside, I lose my sight. When I wake, the promise breaks, light retreats and the dark remakes every window into a blade I bleed and call, but nothing saves. [Extended Outro – Escalating whispers (layered)] “You’ll never leave… you’ll never leave…” “The bars are your blood… the chains are your skin…” “This isn’t a room… it’s the shape you’re in…” “Breathe quieter… they’re listening… "
