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High Road

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i bit down hard on the edge of your name
til the vowels snapped back and the guilt took flame
held your coat like a skin i stole
cant wash loss when it stains the soul
these days dont pass they stalk a shadow on the wall
each breath a blade when the clock wont stop at all
i talk like im whole but i ache in halves
try to sleep and your ghost just laughs
they said time smooths out the break
but im jagged still i bend i shake
scratched you out of the photograph
but the smile still sticks a grinning scar
and id give it all just to hear you scream
one last fight to kill this dream

no grave could hold it
no chord could drown it
you left and nothing answered
but the silence and it cut

i screamed your name til i tasted bone
ripped my throat just to not feel alone
youre gone but the echo still claws back
every step drags grief in a body bag
they say move on but i never moved
i just rot in a life i didnt choose
this aint healing its a painted mask
smile cracked wide my voice just dust and ash

i break in places no one sees
play strong in the day then bleed out slow
grief dont whisper it kicks down doors
sets up camp on the bedroom floor
no shrine to build no final words to carve
just a playlist stuck a needle on the hurt
the calls i missed the jokes you made
loop like a noose through my waking days
piano keys like teeth now bite
every chord's a fight not to fall tonight
they pray for peace i pray for numb
but both go mute when the dark has come

you left your storm
inside my chest
i breathe in pain
but exhale less

i screamed your name til i tasted bone
ripped my throat just to not feel alone
youre gone but the echo still claws back
every step drags grief in a body bag
they say move on but i never moved
i just rot in a life i didnt choose
this aint healing its a painted mask
smile cracked wide my voice just dust and ash

voice gone fight gone
just the dust where we belong
burned your name into my final chord
i play it still but it cant restore

i dont scream now i seethe
grief sank its teeth and picked my bones clean
carved your initials in the strings i strum
now every note's a chase inside
cant undo cant rewind
cant fake peace when it breaks the spine
just a beat just a breath
just a song called death

they say this ends
but they dont know
grief just waits
with nowhere to go

i screamed your name til i tasted bone
ripped my throat just to not feel alone
youre gone but the echo still claws back
every step drags grief in a body bag
they say move on but i never moved
i just rot in a life i didnt choose
this aint healing its a painted mask
smile cracked wide my voice just dust and ash

smile cracked wide
ash in my breath
still calling your name
like i never left


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