10. Fractured Martyrs

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Lyrics:

I don’t know which scream is mine anymore

I wake up wearing someone else’s face

I wake up every morning in someone else's place

There’s a tongue in my mouth that remembers a prayer

I look in the mirror but nobody’s there

The mirror shows an echo of someone I never knew

They blink out of sync like they don't know what to do

I reach to touch the glass but its a stranger that I find

This hand reaching back just isn't mine

We are the choir that forgot the song

We are the wound that healed all wrong

We are the name that was never told

We are the hand that no one wants to hold

Fractured martyrs

We bleed in different keys

Fractured martyrs

No one left to be

Every shard has a mouth

Every mouth has a plea

But the plea has no tongue

And the tongue is me

I feel their memories like crawling scabies under my skin

One recalls drowning no breath to take in

One was a mother one was a child one was the flame

All of them screaming my name like it’s theirs to claim

I bite down to find whose teeth I own

They splinter like chalk tastes like the unknown

There’s a child laughing in the back of my skull

But the laugh comes out wrong too young too beautiful

Identity seizure no teacher no preacher

Not a believer deceiver receiver or keeper

Host for a thousand aborted saints

Chewing the wiring inside my restraints

No face no race just fractured mosaic

Soul split like light in a prism of panic

Echo that ate the original voice

Reflection that murdered the body by choice

Who am i? Who am i? Who am I

Every answer is another lie

Scream that belongs to nobody here

Martyr that died just to live in my fear

Rupture! Rapture! Fracture the frame

Till nothing is left that remembers my name

Now burn the fragments that spell out the shame

I see you seeing me seeing you

We are the same wound wearing different shoes

Fractured martyrs

We bleed in different keys

Fractured martyrs

No god no self

Every shard has a mouth

Every mouth has a plea

But the plea has no tongue

And the tongue

Has no

Me

Has no me

I close the eyes that aren’t mine

And wait for the next face

To crawl inside

Just a matter of time