Echoes of the Broken Mirror

Lyrics

(Intro – clean atmospheric guitar, distant whispered vocals, building tension)
Staring through the glass again…
Same old face won’t fucking die… (Verse 1 – mid-tempo spoken-sung, heavy palm-muted riff)
I keep killing pieces that refuse to let go
Dragging the old me down a road he doesn’t know
Every time I slip, the shame crawls back in slow
Whispers in my head saying I’ll never be whole
Sinning in the silence where nobody can see
Hating the reflection that keeps staring at me
Peel the skin, burn the pride, choke the hunger out
But the ghost returns every time I start to doubt (Pre-Chorus – rising distortion, layered vocals)
I feel it cracking…
The shell is breaking… (Chorus – heavy, melodic scream-sing, crushing low end)
Die inside, let the bastard bleed
Carve away the parts that never learned to breathe
Fuck this war inside my veins
Chasing Christ-likeness through the pain
Dead to me, dead to all I used to be
Haunted by the man I buried but he won’t stay asleep (Verse 2 – faster rhythmic rap flow, psychological intensity)
Night after night the same cycle spins
Fall into the dark, then hate myself again
Lust and anger dressed up like old friends
Pull me under water till I can’t pretend
I want to be clean, want the mirror to change
But the old self laughs from the back of my brain
Every nail I drive just makes the shadows scream
Psychological grave where I’m learning what it means (Pre-Chorus)
I feel it cracking…
The shell is breaking… (Chorus – heavier, double-tracked vocals)
Die inside, let the bastard bleed
Carve away the parts that never learned to breathe
Fuck this war inside my veins
Chasing Christ-likeness through the pain
Dead to me, dead to all I used to be
Haunted by the man I buried but he won’t stay asleep (Bridge/Breakdown – slow crushing half-time, spoken over low chugs)
Breathe out the poison…
Breathe in the grave…
Why won’t you stay dead?
Why won’t you stay dead?
I hate what I was…
I hate what I am…
Kill me softly till I’m finally like Him… (Guitar solo/atmospheric break – eerie leads, distant screams)
(Whispered under the solo)
Die… die… die to self… (Final Chorus – full intensity, haunting layered cleans and screams)
Die inside, let the bastard bleed
Carve away the parts that never learned to breathe
Fuck this war inside my veins
Chasing Christ-likeness through the pain
Dead to me… finally dead to me
The mirror’s getting clearer but the cost is killing me (Outro – fading clean guitars and reverb-drenched whisper)
Staring through the glass again…
Different eyes looking back…
Almost like Him…
Almost…