I Killed The Quiet Thing

You built a coffin that was in my chest
Said to climb inside as it's safer then
You hung your name right behind my eyes
And you called it mine so I'd weep and cry

I wore your silence like a badge of life
Bit down so hard that I split the thread twice
You almost won as you always did
And you almost made me beg and plead for death

I drank your voice like it's poison wine
I let your whisper rewrite my spine
But I'm not soft and I'm not dead
I just bled it all out of me instead
(Me instead)

I killed the quiet thing
That curled up in my bones
Set fire to the shadow
And watched it die alone
You were never me
Just noise in disguise
Now I wear your ash
And I burn when I rise

I carved your lies out of my skin
Scraped you off like rotting sin
Buried every"not enough"
Under fists and broken trust
You made me want to disappear
But I built this rage
From every year
You tried to mute my scream

I killed the quiet thing
Oh