[Hook]
I am the scar that refuses to fade
I am the echo that sharpens the blade
I am the weight that the grave won’t take
Carrying ruin that never will break
[Verse 1]
I live in the house where the windows are eyes
Staring back blank from the years of goodbyes
Floorboards remember each step I regret
Walls hold the smoke of the fires I set
The roof leaks memories, slow acid rain
Dripping on furniture rotting in place
I sweep up the shards of the days that I broke
But the broom is made of the same brittle hope
[Pre-Hook]
Somebody board up the doors to this life
I’m done with the creaking, done with the knife
[Hook]
I am the scar that refuses to fade
I am the echo that sharpens the blade
I am the weight that the grave won’t take
Carrying ruin that never will break
[Verse 2]
I buried my name in the garden out back
But the roots grew upward and strangled the track
Now every new season just blooms the same weed
Feeding on marrow, repeating the bleed
The clock in the hallway ticks backward sometimes
Mocking the future I bartered for dimes
I stand in the kitchen with hands full of rust
Cooking the nothing that feeds my disgust
[Bridge]
I don’t want healing
I want the structure to fall
I don’t want meaning
I want the silence of walls
That finally crumble and bury it all
[Hook]
I am the scar that refuses to fade
I am the echo that sharpens the blade
I am the weight that the grave won’t take
Carrying ruin that never will break
[Verse 3]
I painted the ceilings with maps of escape
But the colors ran dry and the lines lost their shape
Now shadows rehearse all the roles I abandoned
Dancing in dust where the light has been banished
The foundation is cracked but it holds like a vow
Keeping me upright when I’m begging to bow
This derelict shelter of bone and despair
Still stands in the storm that won’t strip it bare
[Outro Hook]
I am the scar… I am the echo…
I am the weight… still refusing to go
The grave keeps its distance, the ruin stays whole
I am the house that devoured my soul
[Final whisper, brittle]
Let it collapse.