7. Echoes Unheard 

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Lyrics:

I thought the story would end louder

I thought someone would at least flinch

Turns out the universe can yawn

And swallow a million screams

Without even waking up

I leave fingerprints on the inside of the dark

They dry and flake away before anyone looks

My name is already forgetting how to spell itself

Letters peeling off like old paint

Falling into a pile no one will sweep

I used to believe in aftermaths

In postscripts in footnotes in mercy

Now I know the book just closes

While the ink is still screaming

Listen

Can you hear it

Exactly

Echoes unheard

Carried on a wind that never blows

Echoes unheard

Seeds the silence never sows

Echoes unheard

We die in the margin

And the page turns anyway

I tried to carve the cry into the void

Used my own ribs as chisels

The void just grew new skin

Smooth

Unmarked

Indifferent

This the last will and testament of the ones who waited

Ink made of blood that coagulated

I hereby bequeath my rage to the vacuum

My hope to the black between atoms

My name to the frequency that nobody tunes

I scatter the ashes of every prayer that burned too soon

Watch ’em drift like snow in a snow globe made of doom

I'm the last note pressed on a record spinning into its tomb

The skipped heartbeat after the flat line verdict

The credits that roll while the theatre’s already empty

I’m the scream that screamed itself into a whisper

Then whispered itself into weather

I’m the cycle that cycles the cycle

The revolving door on a mausoleum

The encore nobody asked for and nobody claps for

I’m the echo that realized it was never thrown

Just born orphaned in the canyon of the gone

Listen close 

This is the sound of forever learning to live with the letdown

This is the sound of the seal that never tears

This is the sound 

Echoes unheard

Falling where no ground exists

Echoes unheard

Kissing the lips of the abyss

Echoes unheard

We become the quiet

We always begged to resist