ℳℯ𝓂ℯ𝓃𝓉ℴ (𝒱ℯ𝓇𝓈𝒾ℴ𝓃 𝟤)

[Verse 1] An empty pocket holds a fading snapshot of the past

The ink runs deep into the forearm while the daylight fades

A stranger asks what happened, but the filing system failed

There is no yesterday to anchor where the anchor drops

Every single second is a fresh awakening from the dark

The mind is wiped clean before the thought can settle down

​ [Chorus] I wake up running blindly through a maze of my own design

Searching for a monster that I might have invented myself

The timeline is broken into fragments on the motel floor

Every note left behind is a weapon pointed at my own soul

​[Verse 2] A suit jacket heavy with keys to vehicles I do not recall owning

A woman crying in the doorway whom I cannot recognize

She says she is trying to save me from my own design

But how do you trust someone when your own mind is the enemy?

The license plates blur past in the rearview mirror

Wait—the reflective surface shows a man I don't know

[Chorus] I wake up running blindly through a maze of my own design

Searching for a monster that I might have invented myself

The timeline is broken into fragments on the motel floor

Every note left behind is a weapon pointed at my own soul

​ [Bridge] (Do you know what you are doing?)

I am following the directions written by my past self

(Your past self lied to keep you sane)

Then sanity is a prison built out of deliberate ignorance

I need a target for the rage, a villain for the script

So I point the weapon at the reflection

And pull the trigger into the void

A conviction carved in pigment on the naked flesh

Telling me who to trust and who deserves the wrath

A self-inflicted blindness just to keep the loop intact

Because the real tragedy is too heavy to absorb