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Revolving Door Mature contentM

kjziller

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About

The song takes the listener on a journey from claustrophobic observation (watching the decay in Verse 1) to righteous anger and grief (over the alienation of the father and corruption of the child in Verse 2). It moves into sorrowful attempted grace (Verse 3), transitions into painful, clear-eyed psychological understanding (Bridge), and finally resolves into cold, unyielding, and liberating resolve (Outro). It is a masterful depiction of the exact moment a survivor realizes that they cannot save someone who is committed to their own destruction, and that walking away is not an act of cruelty, but an act of survival.

Lyrics

Verse 1

You hunt for a savior in a sea of broken men

The hinges of your heart rust out in the rain again

A revolving door of shadows down the hall

Little Simone watches she learns to love the fall

You say you want shelter but you let the monsters in

Trading poisoned souls before the cycle can begin

Pre-Chorus

I swallowed my dignity to sweep the ashes clean

Pretending the ghost of us was standing in between

Chorus

Oh the tragic heroine the martyr in the glass

You cry out you're blameless while the vapors pass

You were broken by a father's cruel design

Now you drown in shallow water claiming how you bled

While the devil starts to dance inside the tears you shed

Yeah the devil starts to dance inside the tears you shed

Verse 2

Then Kshir was born of sorrow from a fleeting breath

You handed him a legacy a lullaby of death

You choked the air around his father till he fled

Gave him the heavy trap you handed down to him instead

You took a thick black marker crossed his name away

Painted him the villain to obscure the light of day

Pretty lies

Pretty pretty lies

Pre-Chorus

Now I see the chains the conditioning so deep

A little girl who learned that love's a wound to keep

Chorus

Oh the tragic heroine the martyr in the glass

You cry out you're blameless while the vapors pass

You were broken by a father's cruel design

Now you drown in shallow water claiming how you bled

While the devil starts to dance inside the tears you shed

Yeah the devil starts to dance inside the tears you shed

Bridge

I searched the shadows for the reason you were blind

Wondering why every gentle touch had cruelty defined

You were broken from the start programmed for the fray

Just a victim of the dark who watched it burn away

Chorus

Oh the tragic heroine the martyr in the glass

You cry out you're blameless while the vapors pass

Now you drown in shallow water claiming how you bled

While the devil starts to dance inside the tears you shed

Outro

The revolving door is bolted you sing here alone

No more weeping victim the final act is through

There's nothing left to haunt here

Nothing left to haunt here

Except the ghost of you

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