Darkness

The lights went out inside my chest

Silence chewing through my breath

Every prayer fell back to dust

I met the dark and called it trust

I built my home in hollow bones

Where guilt and anger overthrown

Every mirror showed a ghost

With bleeding hands around my throat

Drag me through the blackened water

Let it fill my lungs with truth

If I drown in all this horror

At least I'll know I felt the proof

I am more than broken silence

More than every scar I hide

In the teeth of all this darkness

I decide I will not die

I decide I will not die

I decide I will not die

(I decide I will not die)

I fed the void with shattered dreams

Addicted to the quiet screams

I wore my shame like battle scars

Lit cigarettes from fallen stars

Drag me through the blackened water

Let it fill my lungs with truth

If I drown in all this horror

At least I'll know I felt the proof

I am more than broken silence

More than every scar I hide

In the teeth of all this darkness

I decide I will not die

I decide I will not die

I faced the voice that wore my name

It whispered I was born to blame

But rage became a steady flame

And burned the script that fed the shame

Drag me through the blackened water

Let it fill my lungs with truth

If I drown in all this horror

At least I'll know I felt the proof

I am more than broken silence

More than every scar I hide

In the teeth of all this darkness

I decide I will not die

I decide I will not die

The dark still lives beneath my skin

But now I let the daylight in

These wounds no longer chain my will

I walk through night and stand here still