Breathing Time (Extended 2)

Intro

Numb static in marrow, the ticking of steel

Inside every silence, a pressure I feel

Eyes sealed to twilight, I crawl through the dust

Forgotten by endings that know not to trust

Verse 0

Birth at the threshold, voice lost to the grind

Iron and shadow shape tunnels in mind

Stagnant air circling, hungry for sound

Waiting for secrets no pulse ever found

Verse 1

Stone corridors open under my ribs

Breath scraping walls, ancient and fibrous

Ears ringing hollow, every pulse a door

Chanting in silence I’ve never heard before

Skull is a hallway, sound curls and pries

I float in the threshold, time slips through my eyes

Whispers like roots growing deep in my chest

Carrying ages that won’t let me rest

Pre-Chorus

Memory invades me, thick as the dust

Noise shapes the passage, surrender or rust

Bones chew the echoes of what I used to know

Lungs birth the tunnels where I alone go

Chorus

My lungs are keys, unlocking stone and sigh

Breathing time, swallowing centuries dry

Exhaling visions carved in halls of bone

Forever drifting, can’t find my way home

Post-Chorus

Breathe in stone

Breathe in memory

Breathe in void

Breathe in—

Verse 2

Sliding through tunnels, silence is my skin

Ears become the gate, let the ritual begin

Ancient passageways, older than pain

Every echo tattooed, every pulse chain

Pre-Chorus

Pressure’s building, whispers align

Hum of the future grinding up spines

Once I was flesh, now I am song

Living so ancient, but never belonged

Chorus

My lungs are keys, unlocking stone and sigh

Breathing time, swallowing centuries dry

Exhaling visions carved in halls of bone

Forever drifting, can’t find my way home

Post-Chorus

Breathe in stone

Breathe in memory

Breathe in void

Breathe in—

Bridge

Fingers trace fault lines beneath my tight skin

Shapes moving backwards where origins begin

Cold veins of iron threading deep in the clay

Every breath digging what time throws away

Outro

Sink to the marrow, salt in the seams

Awake in the hollows, swallowed by dreams

Hear the last silence, it circles my tongue

Tunnels unravel and nothing is young

Post-Chorus

Breathe in stone

Breathe in memory

Breathe in void

Breathe in—