Burial Light

### **Verse 1**

I sleep with the lights on

Like it keeps the ghosts away

Every shadow feels like you

Every breath tastes like decay

I’ve been stitching up the silence

With a needle made of doubt

If I say your name out loud

Will it burn me inside out?

### **Pre-Chorus**

I swear I tried to be stronger

But strength feels borrowed now

I’m holding onto fragments

Of a life I can’t live down

### **Chorus**

I’m standing in the burial light

Watching everything I love decay

If this is living, I don’t feel alive

I just survive another day

I carved your name into my ribs

Just to prove this pain was real

If hope is something I can’t fix

Then let me break, don’t let me heal

### **Verse 2**

You said time would numb the edges

But it sharpens every lie

I still hear you in the distance

Like a scream I can’t outride

I gave you all my oxygen

Now I’m choking on the air

If I’m honest, I don’t miss you

I miss who I was back there

### **Pre-Chorus**

I keep rehearsing goodbyes

Like they’ll finally make sense

But every word feels hollow

When you’re gone without defense

### **Chorus**

I’m standing in the burial light

Watching everything I love decay

If this is living, I don’t feel alive

I just survive another day

I carved your name into my ribs

Just to prove this pain was real

If hope is something I can’t fix

Then let me break, don’t let me heal

**Bridge** *(drop + build)*

Tell me—

Was I ever enough?

Or just convenient love?

I bent until I shattered

Called it loyalty

Now I’m buried in the aftermath

Of who you needed me to be

*(instrumental swell / screams here)*

### **Final Chorus** *(bigger, desperate)*

I’m standing in the burial light

With a heart that won’t stay quiet

If this is faith, then I’ve lost sight

I pray to ghosts in the silence

I carved your name into my ribs

Now it bleeds with every breath

If this is how I learn to live

Then I choose the kiss of death

**Outro**

Turn the lights off

Let me disappear

I’ve been dead here

For years

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