4. In The Hush Before Collapse

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Lyrics:

I'll take flight with or without you

In your sight there's nothing I can do

But I fight on despite you

No chains no ties I'm breaking through

This won't bring me down

A smile resembling a frown

But it won't stop me

From getting what I need

I do what I have to

I do it without you

What happens to you

I don't care I don't care

Any more

You try to drag me down

Wearing ignorance like a shroud

I've drained all my patience

While you bask in aberrance

You circle close awaiting my collapse

But I rise through the mire

Severing the traps

Unfettered unbroken I'll outlast it all

Through blood and dust I'll own the brawl

This won't bring me down

A smile resembling a frown

But it won't stop me

From getting what I need

I do what I have to

I do it without you

What happens to you

I don't care I don't care

Any more

In the hush before collapse

I taste the rust I smell the lapse

Your poison seeps but I won't drown

I've shed the weight I've torn the brow

Through the din my pulse resounds

In the maelstrom I've been found

I've walked through cataclysm's gate

With every scar to decorate

Your vitriol can't permeate

My will's a blade it lacerates

I navigate the dissonance

With venom turned to vigilance

No covenant no recompense

Just consequence for your pretense

I've danced on edges razor thin

Felt every fracture in my skin

But every break just forges a quill

That makes my heartbeat sharp and real

So let the tempest tear and thrash

I'll rise from every smoking ash

Unfettered unbroken I'll outlast it all

And meet you head on in the final brawl

I'll get what I deserve

Hardened wings still hunt the worm

I see your pity and I'm disturbed

I feel sorry but you earn what you deserved

This won't bring me down

A smile resembling a frown

But it won't stop me

From getting what I need

I do what I have to

I do it without you

What happens to you

I don't care I don't care

Any more

I don't care

Not anymore