Dead Air

Fluorescent hum in the back of my teeth Everybody talking like they're talking through me Woke up raw, now the room cuts clean All that silence sounds violent to me Hands on the wall, I can feel it bend Every word dies cold before it lands Came back breathing but the air went bad Like the whole damn building forgot my name Every quiet turns predatory Every pause puts its hands on me Dead air in my throat, in the room, in the wires Every word burns out before it catches fire Trying to drag me back under again But I can hear my blood through the dead air All the mouths move out of sync Like they learned my face from a cracked screen No one sees what waking up means When the dark still knows where the weak points bleed I can feel the old grave under the floor Hear it knock when they shut the door It wants back in but I know that sound I'm not giving my body back to the ground Every quiet turns predatory Every pause puts its hands on me Dead air in my throat, in the room, in the wires Every word burns out before it catches fire Trying to drag me back under again But I can hear my blood through the dead air No halo, no hand, no clean release Just my pulse making war with the vacancy Let it press, let it hiss, let it bare its teeth I'm still here and it still can't bury me Dead air in my throat, in the room, in the wires Every word burns out before it catches fire Trying to drag me back under again But I can hear my blood through the dead air