The Hidden Cost

[Instrumental Intro] [Verse 1] Sold my minutes to buy back my peace

Watching these sharks just beg for the grease

Hard work turns to heavy clouds in the brain

Dragging this weight through the pouring rain

Counting the days until the cycle will stop

Waiting for all of the pieces to drop

[Pre-Chorus] The music gets louder while I get so small

Trading my shadows for room on the wall

Nothing feels honest inside of this skin

Where do the endings and starts even begin

[Chorus] Stacked up all your burdens on my hollow bones

Shattered the garden and threw all the stones

You drank from the river then poisoned the well

Leaving me stuck in a personal hell

Nobody asked how much weight I could take

Watching the mirrors start starting to break

Burnt down the ladder I used for the climb

Tied to a heavy and punishing time

[Instrumental] [Verse 2] Ripping the stitches from every old wound

Dancing to songs that are wildly untuned

Bitter breath tastes like copper and coal

Trying to salvage the rest of my soul

Maybe the silence is all that remains

Filtering out all the salt from my veins

[Pre-Chorus] The music gets louder while I get so small

Trading my shadows for room on the wall

Nothing feels honest inside of this skin

Where do the endings and starts even begin

[Chorus] Stacked up all your burdens on my hollow bones

Shattered the garden and threw all the stones

You drank from the river then poisoned the well

Leaving me stuck in a personal hell

Nobody asked how much weight I could take

Watching the mirrors start starting to break

Burnt down the ladder I used for the climb

Tied to a heavy and punishing time

[Guitar Solo] [Bridge] Cut all the ropes and I set you free

Funny how nobody came back for me

Poured out my blood to keep everything dry

Asking the mirror a permanent why

Empty handed and I finally see

Nothing is left for a person like me

[Chorus] Stacked up all your burdens on my hollow bones

Shattered the garden and threw all the stones

You drank from the river then poisoned the well

Leaving me stuck in a personal hell

Nobody asked how much weight I could take

Watching the mirrors start starting to break

Burnt down the ladder I used for the climb

Tied to a heavy and punishing time

[Outro] Leaning on ghost shadows now

Heavier than I allowed

Watching it fade into grey