Pulse Fragments

[Verse 1] The street has teeth beneath my feet It bites, but I keep moving A pulse runs underneath the night Like something that keeps proving I run until the city forgets me Until every trace gives up And falls behind like a fading thought Too tired to keep pursuing [Verse 2] There is a pulse beneath my skin Not sound — pressure in disguise Not rhythm — something older than breath Beating behind my eyes Every inhale is a cracked bell Ringing through an empty corridor The pulse calls nothing by name But still it answers more and more [Chorus] And I run, run through the ruin and rain No salvation, no shape, no name Heartbeat drags like a distant drum From a place I no longer come I run, run where the dark gets deep Where even my thoughts refuse to keep And the pulse keeps driving me on Till I can no longer tell where I’ve gone [Verse 3] The world peels off in paper-thin skin Time stumbles barefoot behind me Every step is a silent eclipse Where nothing can remind me My lungs are ash, my blood is wire Pulling me through the fading fire And every mile is a slow undo Of everything I once knew [Verse 4] The pulse grows louder beneath the skin Time stumbles barefoot behind me Every step repeats what came before Like nothing can remind me My lungs are ash, my blood is wire Still pulling me through the fading fire And every mile is a slow undo Of everything I once knew [Chorus] And I run, run through the ruin and rain No salvation, no shape, no name Heartbeat drags like a distant drum From a place I no longer come I run, run where the dark gets deep Where even my thoughts refuse to keep And I disappear in the open air Like I was never really there [Chorus] And I run, run through the ruin and rain No salvation, no shape, no name Heartbeat drags like a distant drum From a place I no longer come I run, run where the dark gets deep Where even my thoughts refuse to keep And I disappear in the open air Like I was never really there [Final Chorus] And I run, run through the ruin and rain No salvation, no shape, no name Heartbeat drags like a distant drum From a place I no longer come I run, run where the dark gets deep Where even my thoughts refuse to keep And I disappear in the open air Like I was never really there