Step through the door (that opens into you)

Verse 1

Behind the frame that never quite aligns

A door of skin and static starts to breathe

It hums a code the waking mind declines

And pulls the floor from under what you leave

The hinges bleed a color without name

Each knock becomes a memory you never made

The keyhole stares with pupils made of flame

And every step you take is one you already paid

Chorus

Step through the door that opens into you

The other side is always looking back

The corridor folds every truth in two

And time forgets the shape of what you lack

Step through the door that opens into you

There is no exit once the frame turns black

Verse 2

The walls are wet with voices that are yours

Yet spoken by a mouth that isn't born

The ceiling drips the future on the floors

And every drop is something you once mourned

A mirror hangs where neither side is true

It shows the face you wear when you are gone

The handle turns although you never do

And leaves you standing where you've never been drawn

Chorus

Step through the door that opens into you

The other side is always looking back

The corridor folds every truth in two

And time forgets the shape of what you lack

Step through the door that opens into you

There is no exit once the frame turns black

Bridge (syncopated, half-time feel)

Knock—

and the silence answers twice

Reach—

and the distance bites your hand

Look—

and the hallway grows more eyes

Stay—

and you vanish where you stand

Final Chorus (doubled, collapsing)

Step through the door that opens into you

(The other side is always looking back)

The corridor folds every truth in two

(And time forgets the shape of what you lack)

Step through the door that opens into—

(There is no exit once the frame turns)

Black

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