Anchor In My Ashes

[Verse 1]
Bloodshot eyes on the ceiling
Phone face down, can’t face the day
Same four walls, same feeling
Like every color’s drained to gray
Got my thumb on the text, “I’m done”
Drafted goodbye, can’t send that line
’Cause your faces flash one by one
And my ruin would ruin your lives
[Chorus]
I keep breaking, but I won’t break down
’Cause your names are the nails
that keep me in the ground
Yeah, I’m shaking, standing on this edge
But your love is the weight
that pulls me from the ledge
If I fall, then you fall, so I grit my teeth
You’re the anchor in my ashes
holding what’s left of me
[Verse 2]
Clock on the wall just mocking
Hands go ’round, I stay the same
Heart on my sleeve keeps rotting
Still, you hold it like it’s not stained
You don’t see how dark it gets
When the crowd goes home, lights fade
But you’d crack in half from the debt
Of the hole I’d leave in your days
[Chorus]
I keep breaking, but I won’t break down
’Cause your names are the nails
that keep me in the ground
Yeah, I’m shaking, standing on this edge
But your love is the weight
that pulls me from the ledge
If I fall, then you fall, so I grit my teeth
You’re the anchor in my ashes
holding what’s left of me
[Bridge]
[Beat drops to sparse bass and distant vocal]
I don’t fight for me (nah)
I fight for every memory
Every stupid joke at 3 a.m.
Every “call me when you can”
Every birthday cake
Every picture frame
If I burn it out
I burn your names
[Breakdown]
(screamed) I wanna quit, I wanna cave
But I won’t make my pain your grave
I wanna fade, I wanna sleep
But I won’t dig that hole so deep
[Chorus]
I keep breaking, but I won’t break down
’Cause your names are the nails
that keep me in the ground
Yeah, I’m shaking, standing on this edge
But your love is the weight
that pulls me from the ledge
If I fall, then you fall, so I grit my teeth
You’re the anchor in my ashes
holding what’s left of me
(you’re the anchor in my ashes)
holding what’s left of me

rap, Hybrid metal-rock trap with synth bass-driven verses, male vocals. Tight 808-style low end locks with double-time hats and chugging palm-muted guitars; verses spit rhythmic, half-screamed bars. Chorus explodes into wide, melodic hook with soaring guitars and stacked gang vocals. Bridge drops into sparse, glitchy breakdown with filtered drums and distant vocal, then slams back into a final, anthemic chorus., metal, rock