A Prison Inside Me

The pain that eats my soul alive
A quiet scream I keep inside
I drink the silence of the night
It tastes like fear and dying light

My shadow speaks when I am weak
When I am weak
It knows the words I dare not speak
Dare not speak

I walk through days that feel the same
A heart in chains, a mind in flames

This weight won’t fade, it tightens slow
The night is all I’ll ever know
Ooh
I scream in thoughts I cannot free
A prison built inside of me

Drowning in an endless sea
No shore, no light to carry me
Carry me
Silence screams inside my veins
Breathing fear, exhaling pain

Echoes crawl beneath my skin
A war I'm doomed to fight within
Within
I sink, I fall, I still remain
Alive inside the pouring rain

The Sun forgets to warm my skin
I wear the cold from deep within
Every dawn feels like defeat
Hope bleeds out beneath my feet

My thoughts decay like autumn leaves
Autumn leaves
Still falling from what I believed
I chase a ghost I used to be
A fading
A fading echo
Staring back at me

This burden carved into my bones
A crown of thorns, a shattered throne
I carry scars no one can see
Invisible
Invisible chains suffocating me

Drowning in an endless sea
No voice left to rescue me
Rescue me
Silence screams, the dark remains
I speak in wounds, I think in pain

Echoes haunt my every breath
A slow embrace, a taste of death
I sink, I fall, yet here I stand
Still reaching out
Still reaching out with trembling hands

If I vanish in the dark tonight
Will you notice my fading light?
Or am I just another name
Buried underneath the pain?

I fight myself behind closed eyes
A thousand truths, a thousand lies
I break, I bend, I almost drown
Still something in me pulls me down

Drowning in an endless sea
Still the waves remember me
Though the night refuses to end
I am not gone, I only bend

Silence screams, but I survive
Half destroyed
Yet still alive
With broken wings, I touch the ground

Unbound
Not redeemed, but still unbound

I carry scars into the dark
A dying flame
A stubborn spark