Lyrics:

The smoke still rises from the ground
Each bridge I burned without a sound
I could not see who held me near
Through walls of rage, through walls of fear

I cursed the hands that tried to stay
And welcomed ghosts that led astray
I could not judge through fractured sight
Who wished me well, who bared the knife

Burned bridges, flames that climb
I razed the truth, I blurred the line
I lost the ones who called me home
And chose the fire, and walked alone

The ashes cling, the smoke won’t fade
I wear the scars of choices made
Not every hand was meant to harm
But blinded, I set fire to calm

Now silence builds where voices stood
A barren shore of ash and wood
I mourn the love I cast aside
The trust I failed, the ones who tried

Burned bridges, flames that climb
I razed the truth, I blurred the line
I lost the ones who called me home
And chose the fire, and walked alone

If I could build from ash and stone
Could I repair the paths I’ve known?
Or is the cost too high to bear
A ghost condemned to breathe this air?

Burned bridges, flames that climb
The fault is theirs, the fault is mine
I held the torch, I made the scar
And now I watch from where we are


Burned Bridges

Lyrics:

I paint the smile, the practiced line
The mask you want, the face is mine
You never ask, you never see
The fracture living under me

I tell you lies to ease your mind
To make you think I’m safe, I’m fine
For every time I dared confess
You left me drowning in the mess

False healing, I wear the light
But inside I am lost to night
A polished frame, a hollow core
I smile and say I’ll hurt no more

The mask has teeth that cut my skin
But safer out than what’s within
If I expose the blood I bleed
You turn away, you never see

So I perform, I play the part
A broken face, a plastic heart
It keeps you calm, it keeps me caged
A prison built, a role I’ve staged

False healing, I wear the light
But inside I am lost to night
A polished frame, a hollow core
I smile and say I’ll hurt no more

Don’t ask again, I’ll only lie
The truth would make you turn and hide
So let me wear the mask you crave
A smiling ghost inside a grave

False healing, I wear the light
But inside I am lost to night
A polished frame, a hollow core
I smile and say I’ll hurt no more

False healing, you’ll never see
The pain you never asked of me
I wear the smile, I play the part
A painted face, a broken heart

False Healing

Lyrics:

I feel the hunger in my chest
The hollow ache, the endless rest
But every hand that reached before
Left me bleeding on the floor

I crave the warmth, the human light
But fear the teeth that always bite
The closer love has ever been
The deeper it has carved my skin

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The bridges burned, the ghosts remain
I guard my heart, I starve my veins

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The bridges burned, the ghosts remain
I guard my heart, I starve my veins

The loneliness consumes my frame
A hollow voice without a name
Yet I resist the open door
Afraid of what I’ve known before

I see your eyes, I hear your call
But fear the rise, the coming fall
If I let go, I may not stand
I cage myself with my own hands

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The bridges burned, the ghosts remain
I guard my heart, I starve my veins

I want to trust, I want to heal
But every wound still feels too real
I fear the joy, I fear the kiss
Afraid of what I’ll lose in this

Once bitten, twice shy
I want to live, but I can’t try
The fire calls, the shadows cling
And I retreat from everything

Once bitten, twice shy
I ache for love, but I deny
Better silence, better pain
Than bleed and break and fall again

Twice Shy

Lyrics:

You bring me tales of shallow storms
Of fleeting wounds, of minor thorns
I nod, I smile, I play my part
While silence claws inside my heart

You’ll never know the weight I bear
The cliff I walk, the thinning air
Your fragile worlds collapse on me
While I weigh life, eternity

Petty kingdoms, broken thrones
You call on me, I break alone
Your shallow waves, my endless deep
I smile while screaming you’ll never see

Each mask I wear to keep you calm
A painted grin, a broken psalm
I cannot speak, I cannot break
One careless word’s the end I’d make

So I will hold your tiny wars
And never show my bleeding floors
You lean on me, you’ll never know
The edge I guard, the fall below

Petty kingdoms, broken thrones
You call on me, I break alone
Your shallow waves, my endless deep
I smile while screaming you’ll never see

Your troubles small, they weigh me down
But silence keeps me gagged, unbound
If I revealed the depth I keep
Would you still trust, or let me weep?

Petty kingdoms, broken thrones
You call on me, I break alone
Your shallow waves, my endless deep
I smile while screaming you’ll never see

Petty kingdoms, fragile reigns
I bear the crown, I hide the chains
The edge beneath my feet won’t free
While I collapse invisibly

Petty Kingdoms

Lyrics:

A hand that shakes, a blade that gleams
The stitch is mercy, but it screams
Every needle finds its mark
And tears the wound a little dark

I flinch before the thread pulls tight
The body jerks, rejects the fight
Healing burns more fierce than flame
And every scar still whispers blame

Splinters in the vein
Driving deeper just to mend the pain
I recoil, but still I bleed
This broken flesh is all I need
Splinters in the vein
No salvation, only stain
The cure is just another knife
To carve a shape resembling life

The body knows to twist away
From hands that promise they will save
Every remedy tastes like fire
Ashen lungs and frayed desire

The veins are rivers turned to stone
I claw, I scream, I fight alone
The reflex shatters what could bind
But still I force the shards inside

Splinters in the vein
Driving deeper just to mend the pain
The body trembles, can’t endure
But agony becomes the cure
Splinters in the vein
No salvation, only stain
I stitch my ruin, thread by thread
To prove I suffer and am not yet dead

Splinters in the vein
Driving deeper just to mend the pain
The body trembles, can’t endure
But agony becomes the cure
Splinters in the vein
No salvation, only stain
I stitch my ruin, thread by thread
To prove I suffer and am not yet dead


Splinters in the Vein

Lyrics:

The glass is black, the face unclear
A shifting ghost, not truly near
I search for me, but all I find
Are borrowed scars that are not mine

Fractured mirror, breaking slow
I don’t yet know the one below
If I strip away what pain has made
Will I remain, or just fade?

A thousand eyes I’ve worn as skin
Each wound a mask, each hurt a twin
The mirror bends, but will not show
If love can bloom in what I know

Fractured mirror, breaking slow
I don’t yet know the one below
If I strip away what pain has made
Will I remain, or just fade?

The child I was is buried deep
Entombed in glass, too tired to weep
I press my hand against the pane
But every touch just splits again

If clarity should find its way
Would I survive the sight of day?
Or turn away from what is true
A stranger’s blood inside the view

Will I despise what waits inside?
A stranger’s voice I cannot hide
If truth is born from shattered light
Then let me bleed to see it right

Fractured mirror, breaking slow
Reveal the self I’ll never know
If all that’s left is glass and flame
Then let me burn without a name


Fractured Mirror

Lyrics:

I walked a step, the ground was new
A fragile path, a different view
But shadows whisper, sweet, unkind
The solace I still leave behind

The circuits crack, the embers glow
Old cravings surge, I let them grow
Each promise made dissolves in fire
I feed the ash inside the wires

Ash in the wires, dragging me back
One step forward, lost in the black
Every spark ignites the chain
I burn to feel, I burn in vain

The ghost of comfort grips my hand
A poisoned friend, a grain of sand
It tells me healing moves too slow
That only ruin lets me glow

The smoke becomes a second skin
I lose myself, I let it in
Addiction sings in broken choirs
And crowns me king of ash and wires

Ash in the wires, dragging me back
One step forward, lost in the black
Every spark ignites the chain
I burn to feel, I burn in vain

I swear I’ll climb, I swear I’ll rise
But fall again through fractured skies
Each flame I chase consumes the dawn
And leaves me emptier, withdrawn

Ash in the wires, dragging me back
One step forward, lost in the black
Every spark ignites the chain
I burn to feel, I burn in vain

Ash in the wires, I disappear
A fading pulse I cannot steer
I light the fire, I breathe the smoke
And choke upon the words I spoke

Ash in the Wires

Lyrics:

I never thought the sky could clear
A single breath with nothing near
Yet silence blooms, a fragile glow
A moment’s peace I shouldn’t know

The wires hum, but not with pain
The static lifts, the ghosts refrain
And for a breath, the world feels kind
A foreign calm inside my mind

Synthetic dawn, it blinds my eyes
A shock of peace I can’t disguise
The neon light, the fractured hue
Reveals a self I never knew

I brace for storm, but nothing falls
No shattered glass, no closing walls
Just open air, an endless sky
I almost live, I almost try

It flickers once, then fades away
The morning lost, the night replays
But still I know the light was real
A wound that somehow learns to heal

Synthetic dawn, it blinds my eyes
A shock of peace I can’t disguise
The neon light, the fractured hue
Reveals a self I never knew

If healing’s just these fleeting frames
Then let me breathe between the flames
Each moment clear, each silence true
A ghost of hope I stumble through

Synthetic dawn, it blinds my eyes
A shock of peace I can’t disguise
The neon light, the fractured hue
Reveals a self I never knew

Synthetic dawn, it fades too fast
But shows the chains don’t have to last
If only once, I saw the day
And knew my soul had not decayed


Synthetic Dawn

Lyrics:

I feel it beat inside my chest
A fragile thrum that will not rest
Each rhythm sharp, each echo near
A song of life, but edged with fear

The veins are rivers made of light
But fragile shards cut through the night
Each breath a blade, each move a chance
To watch the glass begin its dance

Pulse of glass, it cuts, it shines
Proof that this broken soul still climbs
Alive, though fractured, weak, and thin
The sharpest edge still holds me in

I fear the silence when it stops
The fragile glow, the sudden drop
But even now the fracture glows
A fragile strength that no one knows

So let it bleed, this fragile flame
A pulse that cuts, but keeps my name
Though every shard could tear apart
It keeps the rhythm of my heart

Pulse of glass, it cuts, it shines
Proof that this broken soul still climbs
Alive, though fractured, weak, and thin
The sharpest edge still holds me in

A fragile glow, a fleeting spark
A wound that glimmers in the dark
If this is life, so sharp, so small
Then still it beats — I’ve lived at all

Pulse of glass, it cuts, it shines
Proof that this broken soul still climbs
Alive, though fragile, torn, and scarred
This pulse still beats through every shard

Pulse of Glass

Lyrics:

I built these walls from shattered flame
Each fracture carved, each scar a name
A citadel of ruined parts
But still it burns — my cathedral of sparks

The glass has cut, the wires frayed
But from the wreck a light was made
Each wound a fire, each break a mark
A sanctuary of the dark

Cathedral of sparks, I stand within
The ruins shine where I have been
No holy hymn, no perfect art
Just fractured glass and a burning heart

The ashes crowned upon my head
Remind me what I could have fled
But still I rise, though bent, though scarred
Alive inside my house of sparks

If mourning built my first domain
Then healing forged this house from pain
The sparks are fleeting, weak, unsure
But fire is fire, and I endure

Cathedral of sparks, I stand within
The ruins shine where I have been
No holy hymn, no perfect art
Just fractured glass and a burning heart

If I collapse, I’ll light the sky
A flare that screams I lived, I tried
This broken frame, this trembling spark
Still burns a name against the dark

Cathedral of sparks, I stand within
The ruins shine where I have been
Through glass and flame, through endless scars
I crown myself in a cathedral of sparks

Cathedral of Sparks

Hi, I'm Atlas!  I consider myself primarily a lyricist.  Music for me is a way of expressing myself and how I am feeling.  I hope something in my music speaks to you and as my friend has said to me, "May the music you need find its way to you."

Fractured Mirror

Atlas I.

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