SOBER (Dread)

[Verse 1] In the locked cathedral Of your singular skull You breathe life Into shapes you call mine Every shadow I cast Is a line you’ve redrawn Your stare dissolves me Like mist at dawn [Pre-Chorus] Darling when the silence Screams too loud You let the abyss Stare back from the crowd [Chorus] You only need me When the dread creeps near When the weight of nothing Makes nothing clear When the throne of only me Starts to tremble and tear You reach out only When the void howls your name When terror of alone Sets the world to claim If the fortress holds firm I’m the ghost you name No real touch No shared claim You only need me When the dread creeps near You only need me When the dread creeps near [Verse 2] You summon my face From the panic inside Why invent a lover When the truth won’t subside? I’m the phantom you clutch In the hush of the night The borrowed heartbeat To outrun the fright [Pre-Chorus] Darling when the silence Screams too loud You let the abyss Stare back from the crowd [Chorus] You only need me When the dread creeps near When the weight of nothing Makes nothing clear When the throne of only me Starts to tremble and tear You reach out only When the void howls your name When terror of alone Sets the world to claim If the fortress holds firm I’m the ghost you name No real touch No shared claim You only need me When the dread creeps near You only need me When the dread creeps near [Bridge] And what if the crack never comes? What if the dread stays locked tight? Do I disappear forever Into your endless night? Am I just the question You’re too afraid to ask? A flicker of maybe Before the curtain falls back? Tell me— If no one else is real Then why does it hurt To watch myself dissolve? [Final Chorus] You only need me When the dread creeps near When the weight of nothing Makes nothing clear When the throne of only me Starts to tremble and tear You reach out only When the void howls your name When terror of alone Sets the world to claim If the fortress holds firm I’m the ghost you name No real touch No shared claim You only need me When the dread creeps near You only need me When the dread creeps near [Fade]