[Intro – instrumental, ambient, no vocals] [Verse 1] Arteries etched in frozen echoes Skin rejects the light it wore Thoughts decay in silent spirals Names dissolve behind the door Weight without a shape is forming Cold dominion left unseen Pulse erased, replaced by absence Something ancient in between [Pre-Chorus] Eyes unblinking in the dark Time collapsing into one [Chorus – slow, heavy] Marked by silence, dragged below Ashen thrones begin to grow Every breath becomes a wound In the mouth of endless void I became the silence I feared VINDICATE — buried name Spoken once, erased again [Verse 2] Tongue of shadows splits the stillness Language fractures into dust Bone remembers deeper hunger Faith reduced to iron rust Signals drowning in the marrow Grief converted into stone Echoed hymns of nothing breathing Claim the body as their own [Pre-Chorus] No reflection left to hold Only pressure, only void [Chorus] Marked by silence, dragged below Ashen thrones begin to grow Every breath becomes a wound In the mouth of endless void I became the silence I feared VINDICATE — severed will Dripping through the static still [Bridge – ambient / spoken → build] Unbecoming… Unformed… Unmade… I want nothing from your broken world Everything returns to dark Nothing here survives [Final Chorus – heaviest] Marked by silence, dragged below Ashen thrones begin to grow Every breath becomes a wound In the mouth of endless void I became the silence I feared VINDICATE — hollow crown Nothing left to tear me down
