[intro - reversed cymbals, detuned feedback, no downbeat] [verse 1 - whispered, baritone, words ahead of beat] crawling through the cracks of sound eyes that never touch the ground static skin and hollow bone waiting for the undertow waiting for the undertow to take me [pre-chorus - spoken-sung, fragile, mournful] fold the silence bend the wire breathe the ash of dying fire fold the silence bend the wire [chorus - urgent, soaring, words behind the beat, reverb-drowned] i am the shape that breaks the light i am the scream that steals the night i am the wound that won't close i am the space where nothing grows and nothing grows and nothing grows [verse 2 - smoky whisper, buried in reverb, texture not words] dust and echo flesh and rust everything we touch turns to dust everything we love turns to rust everything we were turns to nothing nothing at all [bridge - abrupt cutoffs, instruments drop randomly, spoken-sung] you were never here you were always here splitting the atom of my fear you were never here you were always here [climax - 5/8 collapses into 4/4 half-time, full chest voice, no belting] falling through the floor of heaven burning all the seven seals scattering the ashes of everything i feel falling through the floor of heaven burning through the weight of years scattering the silence of everything i fear [outro - enters too early, stops, returns one last time - whisper] crawling crawling through the cracks through the cracks of sound of sound
