Take me out tonight
Beyond these tired flats
These dim terraces
I don't want to return
To hollow rooms
Where my own footsteps
Echo too loud
My mood swings
Sudden brightness
Like static sparks
Then deep stillness
I breathe stale air
As if it's heavy with old smoke
We move through silent streets
Headlights glancing off blank windows
Strangers pass, sealed away
In their own silence
If I vanished now
Just stepped outside
This frame—would the night hesitate?
I feel as though I'm already erased
A name never spoken
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would your pulse falter?
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would your blood run colder?
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would the silence tremble?
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would I decompose unseen?
Don't take me back
Those walls press inward
Breathless and stale
A kettle shrieks for no one
A hollow alarm in dim air
I flare with manic energy
Laughing at nothing
Then collapse into grey ash
I'm tired of these vertiginous
Shifts I can't predict
Rain slides down the window
Distorting my reflection
Into a smear of dull light
My thoughts splinter like old glass
Each shard cutting inward
One instant I burn frantic and wild
The next I'm empty, hollowed out
If I sank away now
Would any whisper remain?
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would your pulse falter?
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would your blood run colder?
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would the silence tremble?
If I slipped beneath
These wheels tonight
Would I decompose unseen?
Take me anywhere
Let these dim lights blur
I loosen my grip
Letting the hum of distant
Engines fill the hollow
If I step into that quiet void
No call, no headline
No reaching hand
Who would ever know
I had breathed in this place?
