Lyrics
{Hear Me Breathe} Hollow echoes through rusted pipes Follow my voice down where the misery hides Footsteps above me, Corroded windows swallow the light Heat always rises high above, swirling round like a noose, Folding inward, curling into the corners, a hearth of rotted roots. Distant laughter bleeding through floorboards above, My fingertips are scoring lines into the floor's rot,... "Splinters in my teeth, gnashing on warped beams" "My bloods running in streams, keeping in my screams" I’ve been living in the basement of my own chest, Where the air is cold and everything echoes wrong. I keep climbing up the stairs in my head, But the door above me never stays unlocked. I’m down here in the dark cellar room, Talking to shadows like they’re proof. That I was loved, that I was real, That loneliness can’t steal the feel. But every sound just circles back, And I’m still waiting in the black. For someone to come close enough, To hear me breathe, Spider silk stitching broken seams. A dust-veiled mirror nailed to beams, Cracked madness reflecting back misery. Two hollow holes centered on a gaunt face, Fractured afterglow memories dismembered and fade away. The glass won’t lie - it only splits what’s left of me, Each crack a truth I buried deep beneath the beams. I’ve been living in the basement of my own chest, Where the air is cold and everything echoes wrong, I keep climbing up the stairs in my head, But the door above me never stays unlocked. I’m down here in the dark cellar room, Talking to shadows like they’re proof. That I was loved, that I was real, That loneliness can’t steal the feel. But every sound just circles back, And I’m still waiting in the black. For someone to come close enough, To hear me breathe,.. I’m down here in the dark cellar room, Talking to shadows like they’re proof. That I was loved, that I was real, That loneliness can’t steal the feel. But every sound just circles back, And I’m still waiting in the black. For someone to come close enough, To hear me breathe,.. [big choir chanting and clapping unison] (ooooooooh aaaaaaaaaah) (ooooooooh aaaaaaaaaah) (ooooooooh aaaaaaaaaah) (ooooooooh aaaaaaaaaah)