Lyric

City hums like a low-grade fever

Neon burns through the midnight haze

Climb the rails just to breathe above it

Concrete sky under buzzing waves

Static crawls in the back of my mind

All my quiet fears and loud mistakes

Streetlight flickers like a bad connection

I feel the signal start to break

Every heartbeat out of sync

Like a station out of range

All the things I never voiced

Tuning into something strange

Static on the fire escape

Drowning out the words I couldn’t say

Every broken thought I taped

Plays in flashes then decays

If I fall or if I fade

Will these fragments find a place?

Under all this noise I make

I’m still waiting on this fire escape

Distant sirens twist into a rhythm

Matching steps with my shaking knees

Echo chambers in these metal shadows

Hold the ghosts of who I used to be

Breath comes out in a cloud of secrets

Hanging heavy in the poisoned air

I’m a broadcast no one ever tuned to

Talking back to nothing there

Every heartbeat out of sync

Like a station lost in snow

All the sentences I skipped

Start to fight to overflow

Static on the fire escape

Drowning out the fears I meant to face

Every story left half-shaped

Glitches in a crowded space

If I crash or if I stay

Will these pieces still remain?

Under all this noise I make

I keep breathing on this fire escape

Dawn is bleeding at the edge of rooftops

Muted colors in a tired sky

All the sleepless hours that almost broke me

Fade to ash as the night rewinds

I don’t know if I can fix the damage

Or rewrite what I can’t erase

But I can stand here with the shaking metal

And let the static clear a space

Every heartbeat back in time

With the rhythm of the rails

I was scared of what I’d find

Underneath the noise and veils

Static on the fire escape

Turns to signals I can finally trace

Every fractured line I scraped

Draws a map across my face

If I break or if I change

I’ll still recognize my name

Under all this noise I made

I step forward from this fire escape