The Broken King

Verse 1

Midnight

Concrete

A cold gray sheet

The ceiling tiles begin to twist

My pulse is hammering inside my wrist

Silver fire

Burning higher

I am buried under heavy cotton tides

No place hides

Pre-Chorus

She breathes

So deep

Lost in a dream I cannot keep

I reach for her then pull away

Before the sun can steal the day

Surface calm

Surface still

She never saw the hollow will

Chorus

This pressure builds behind my eyes

A thousand silent frantic cries

No one sees the man I fear

The broken king that is dying here

I am stranded in the shallow end

Waiting for the reel to bend

I am bone

I am light

In the middle of the night

Post-Chorus

Wait for it

Wait for it

The night

The night

Verse 2

Rusted

Blade

Choices made

A failure in a tailored suit

The bitter taste of fallen fruit

Screaming

Staring

A padded room that I am sharing

She only hears the shifting weight

While I sit here tempting fate

Chorus

This pressure builds behind my eyes

A thousand silent frantic cries

No one sees the man I fear

The broken king that is dying here

I am stranded in the shallow end

Waiting for the reel to bend

I am bone

I am light

In the middle of the night

Bridge

It is a fuse getting shorter now

It is a sweat on a frozen brow

I am an engine running out of air

I am a mountain that was never there

Short fuse

Cold sweat

Not yet

Not yet

Guitar Solo

Chorus

This pressure builds behind my eyes

A thousand silent frantic cries

No one sees the man I fear

The broken king that is dying here

I am stranded in the shallow end

Waiting for the reel to bend

I am bone

I am light

In the middle of the night

Outro

Middle of the night

Burning light

Cotton tides

No place hides

Nowhere to hide