Knife In My Chest

[Verse 1]
Anxiety like a knife
Deep inside of me
I feel it in my chest
Each breath cuts shallow
My heart
It pounds
It pounds
Like it’s trying to escape me
I hear it
This endless thrum
Chewing through the quiet
[Pre-Chorus]
Every little word you said
Crawls back under my skin
All of the time I spent with you
Plays on a loop again
Was it love or was it poison?
Can’t untangle what is true
All of the time I spent with you
Is the blade I’m pushing through
[Chorus]
Knife in my chest
You’re the handle I can’t let go
Twisting in the mess
Cutting lines only we would know
Every beat is you
Crashing
Crashing through my rib cage
Knife in my chest
You’re the center of my rage
[Verse 2]
You laugh in my head
Little echoes in the hallway
Shadows on the wall
Take your shape and then they fall
You said I was “too much”
Now your silence feels much louder
Every promise that we broke
Fills my lungs with bitter smoke
[Pre-Chorus]
Every little word you said
Crawls back under my skin
All of the time I spent with you
Plays on a loop again
Was it love or was it poison?
Can’t untangle what is true
All of the time I spent with you
Is the blade I’m pushing through
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[whispered vocals]
Count to ten
But it climbs again
Hear my pulse
Like a marching drum
Tear you out
Of my nerves
My veins
But you live
In the quake
In the quake
In the quake
[crescendo]
Rip you from my chest
Feel the cold rush fill the space
If this is what is left
I’ll wear every twisted trace
All of the time I spent with you
Burns its way right through
[Chorus]

metal, Hybrid dark-pop / J-pop / metal / dubstep, female vocals. Clean, haunting verses over sparse synth pulses and sub, then pre-chorus introduces stuttered vocal chops. Chorus explodes with distorted guitars, glitchy bass growls, and hard-edged drums. Second half adds stacked harmonies and a soaring, almost idol-style topline over crushing drops. Big, cinematic reverb on snare; vocal rides upfront, slightly saturated., dubstep, deep, j-pop, pop