Architecture of Collapse

There's a silent fire

Behind my eyes

There's a silent fire burning behind my eyes

Smoke curls where the air won't stay

I wear these ruins

Like they're answers in disguise

But everything I touch just fades away

Clocks bleed out

On the walls of my chest

Time keeps carving through my skin

Balancing on the edge

Of what's left

Between giving up

Or giving in

If I shatter

Into fractured light

Which piece of me

Survives the night?

I ignite the void

So I don't fade out

Cold sparks learning

How to breathe somehow

If the abyss

Starts calling my name

I scream in flames

So I don't break

I'm the error

That refused to die

A scar that learned

How to outrun time

If the end redraws

What's left of me

I rebuild

I don't fade

I don't break

Buried voices

In oceans of glass

So I won't hear

What they demand

But every silence

Echoes back

Like a ghost

I can't command

They said

"be quiet, disappear"

But I'm excess

In overdrive

A short circuit

Fueled by fear

A failing pulse

That won't flatline

If I fall

Inside myself again

Will I return

Or just descend?

I ignite the void

So I don't fade out

Cold sparks learning

How to breathe somehow

If the abyss

Starts calling my name

I scream in flames

So I don't break

I'm the error

That refused to die

A scar that learned

How to outrun time

If the end redraws

What's left of me

I rebuild

I don't fade

I don't break

There's a hollow

That whispers my name

Soft enough

To pull me under

If someone hears me

Through the haze

Tell me

I still exist somewhere

Break

Distort

Ignite

I won't disappear

Nothing left inside

But I'm still here

I ignite the void

So I don't fade out

Cold sparks learning

How to breathe somehow

If the abyss

Starts calling my name

I scream in flames

So I don't break

I'm the error

That refused to die

A scar that learned

How to outrun time

If the end redraws

What's left of me

I rebuild

I don't fade

I don't break

And if everything

In me gives way

Let it burn

To be reborn one day