Slow Burn

Blank pages, caffeine, and late nights Running circles in your own mind Invisible and you don't feel right Wishing they could see straight through to you Maybe the stars will all collide But they're losing light from nine to five Chasin' gold but where's the silver line? Wishin' you were still twenty-two Gotta get away right now Gotta find a way somehow To not let anybody hold you down Wish I knew then what I know now I'm tired of feeling lost inside This pressure's eating me alive Gotta find a way to free myself now Your voice is getting too loud This pressure's eating me alive Hеad filled with big dreams and city lights But your mind is always preoccupiеd Easy saying that you're alright It's anything and everything but true You feel like dying on the inside Chasing demons to get a rise Why do we tell ourselves lies? The ones that we could never live up to I'm tired of feeling lost inside This pressure's eating me alive Gotta find a way to free myself now Your voice is getting too loud This pressure's eating me alive I've been tested and beat down And pushed to the brink And my God, they waged all their wars on me But I pulled myself up Right out of the ruins And I will build this empire, but I'm only human Embrace the pressure It's screaming out your name Embrace the pressure When it hits you like a tidal wave I'm tired of feeling lost inside This pressure's eating me alive Gotta find a way to free myself now Your voice is getting too loud This pressure's eating me alive I'm tired of feeling lost inside (Tired of feeling lost) This pressure's eating me alive (It's eating me alive) Gotta find a way to free myself now Your voice is getting too loud (Your voice is getting too loud) This pressure's eating me alive It's eating me alive

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026

They sold your soul away without permission They let you think that you've got control They come and take what they wanted from ya Now smile and get on with the show Sacrifice the poor to the rich man's war And burn the evidence up Their turn to pay the piper But they're going to pay the judge Your silence is betrayal Your silence is betrayal No, we don't feel a thing and you're not listening How can you buy the lies they tell? When they brеak you down and use your parts to sell No, we don't feel a thing (Wе don't feel a thing) A loss of humanity How can you buy the lies they tell? We can't get out, it was all designed to fail The truth becomes another headline revision They want you all to see and believe Blood on their hands is in the framework They don't want a cure for the disease They read your rights and throw the key Reciting thoughts and prayers The system was designed to fail 'cause in their game You're just another player No, we don't feel a thing and you're not listening How can you buy the lies they tell? When they break you down and use your parts to sell No, we don't feel a thing (We don't feel a thing) A loss of humanity How can you buy the lies they tell? We can't get out, it was all designed to fail Your silence is betrayal Your silence is betrayal System failure System failure They say don't fear the reaper 'Til you poison your own well They lost all their connection Maybe they'll find it in hell (If you look hard enough down a loaded gun) They say don't fear the reaper (Maybe you'll finally see when your time is up) (If you look hard enough down a loaded gun) 'Til you poison your own well (Maybe you'll finally see when your time is up) (If you look hard enough down a loaded gun) They lost all their connection (Maybe you'll finally see when your time is up) (If you look hard enough down a loaded gun) Maybe they'll find it in hell (Maybe you'll finally see when your time is up)

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026

Hey Can't seem to let it go, you spent too many nights Staring at these walls through bloodshot eyes You say it's hard, I know, he took your will to fight And now you're in denial, oh, oh You're constantly reminded by the memories In all the broken picture frames There's no justification when he goes and blots the sun out With the colors of his rage, oh He says, "I'm sorry" While he's ripping you apart at the seams What does it feel like When nobody can hear when you scream? You say you love him, he shattered your rose-colored glasses And left you seeing in black and blue And now you're broken, 'cause true love doesn't leave you Feeling empty with a heart so bruised Now you're constantly reminded by the scars he left That you gave him everything So you sing your cares away while you're trapped in a script That doesn't ever seem to change It's not gonna change He says, "I'm sorry" While he's ripping you apart at the seams What does it feel like When nobody can hear when you scream? And they don't know what I know But your face tells me no lies It's too late, he won't change Look around, you're playing with fire Ooh, oh Now you're seeing in red, so you close your eyes To you push it down, don't push it down Said, "It's all in your head", gotta get you out I won't let you down, won't let you down Now you're seeing in red, so you close your eyes To push it down, don't push it down I won't let you down Gotta get you out He says, "I'm sorry" While he's ripping you apart at the seams What does it feel like When nobody can hear when you scream? And they don't know what I know But your face tells me no lies Please tell me why you're still Still playing with fire

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026

Never thought it would come to this But damn, your knife's deep in my chest, oh, no But now I know A dull blade, the point you missed Won't cut me twice, I promise this, oh, no Well, now you know Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Everybody sees that you just don't get it Envy's gonna blind you if you let it Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Forgave you once and you just spent it Shot you twice so you know that I meant it You better stop and think twice You brought a knife to a gunfight Over it, get over it Before I can't let it, I can't let it go And all that venom that you can't hide It's gonna kill you from the inside Over it, get over it Before I can't let it, I can't let it go I can't lеt it, I can't let it go, I can't let it Nevеr thought you'd see the day Things turned around and went my way, oh, please Such a tragedy Success left a bitter taste Sweet as the look that's on your face, you see It was meant to be Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Tried to leave a mark but I'm gonna forget it Dug your grave and now you'll always regret it Oh, oh-oh, oh-oh, oh-oh Betrayal is your game and you still deny it Never gonna win, hey, at least you tried it You better stop and think twice You brought a knife to a gunfight Over it, get over it Before I can't let it, I can't let it go And all that venom that you can't hide It's gonna kill you from the inside Over it, get over it Before I can't let it, I can't let it go I can't let it, I can't let it go, I can't let it, I can't let it go I can't let it, I can't let it go I gave you one chance and you just spent it Now I'll shoot you twice so you know that I meant it You better stop and think twice You brought a knife to a gunfight Over it, get over it Before I can't let it, I can't let it go And all that venom that you can't hide It's gonna kill you from the inside Over it, get over it Before I can't let it, I can't let it go You better stop and think twice You brought a knife to a gunfight Over it, get over it Before I can't let it, I can't let it go And all that venom that you can't hide It's gonna kill you from the inside Over it, get over it Now I can't let it, I can't let it go

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026

Hell yeah, brother I bet you thought you had the advantage Cried wolf, put yourself on the blacklist You're not a martyr, you're an afterthought So get off your fucking cross What won't kill us Better run like hell We won't exist In your fairy tale Is this what you wanted to see? To conquer and divide us deceitfully Go ahead, keep testing our patience Buried the hatchet, but we still know where it is But we still know where it is Where are you now? Just a face in the crowd Where are you now? Tried to kick us when we're down Where are you now? Tried to sell us out We won't take this lying down We're getting up, getting up this time around What won't kill us Better run like hell We won't exist In your fairy tale And I don't want to be exonerated In a book of fiction that you created Your story's got a lot of plot holes in it You'd rather drag us than admit it So just stop Bite your tongue Hard enough to taste the blood Where are you now? Just a face in the crowd Where are you now? Tried to kick us when we're down Where are you now? Tried to sell us out We won't take this lying down We're getting up, getting up this time around Choose your next words Oh so carefully, please You're under oath And we know you're so fucking guilty Now get on your knees, say a prayer and weep Don't you know that secrets never sleep? Now get on your knees, say a prayer and weep Don't you know that secrets never sleep? What won't kill us Better run like hell We won't exist In your fairy tale I'll bite my tongue while you run your mouth Look the other way, watch the seasons change As you count your dollars, I'll count down the days It takes for you to dig your own grave

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026

I had dreams before you Till you put me, put me, put me inside your box And now you're waging holy wars to, oh To make me, make me, make me something I'm not I just bit my tongue for far too long And I won't walk the line you wanna draw It's tearing me in two, is it enough To become another arrow that I dodge? If I stay away (Away) Would you only suffocate? Bleed me out until I break? I'm wide awake (Awake) It's getting harder to pretend It's you I won't resent I forgot who I was before you And I can't, and I can't, and I can't just pretend All the red flags that I ignored, oh Won't burn up and burn out, no, it's a dead end When you look, do you see half of me? You bend my will to be just what you need And maybe you won't follow your own dreams But I don't need this like you needed me If I stay away (Away) Would you only suffocate? Bleed me out until I break? I'm wide awake (Awake) It's getting harder to pretend It's you I won't resent You wanna sleep in my bed Won't walk a mile in my shoes, oh You wanna live in my head Too bad you can't afford the view, ooh-whoa We'll make the same mistakes If I stay away (Away) Would you only suffocate? Bleed me out until I break? I'm wide awake (Awake) It's getting harder to pretend It's you I won't resent If I stay away (Away) Would you only suffocate? Bleed me out until I break? I'm wide awake (Awake) It's getting harder to pretend It's you I won't resent

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026

Take me back To when we were younger (Younger) Driving down eighty-five You were perfect (Perfect) I was standing in your sunroof (Sunroof) Running away from our lives when You said you didn't have a single care in the world And I felt invincible back when I was, when I was your girl I miss the way we felt alive And I'd do anything 'Cause we moved at the speed of light Before you took everything And if you only knew, oh I miss the way you saw through Like I was the only girl in thе room The only girl in the room We could talk for hours and hours (Hours) About nothing at all Dancing in thе dark and screaming up at the stars (At the stars) At the top of our lungs, and I loved the way you helped me conquer my fears Before the scars chipped away And after all of these years, I still I miss the way we felt alive And I'd do anything 'Cause we moved at the speed of light Before you took everything And if you only knew, oh I miss the way you saw through Like I was the only girl in the room Before your walls went up I'd hang on every word you said Back when we were enough And now all I see is darkness When I was the light and you were the thunder And I held you up and you pulled me under Where did you go? I miss the way we felt alive And I'd do anything 'Cause we moved at the speed of light Before you took everything And if you only knew, oh I miss the way you saw through Like I was the only girl in the room (Only girl in the, only girl in the, only girl in the) The only girl in the room, oh (Only girl in the, only girl in the, only girl in the)

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026

Treading water, my head goes underneath They told me that I should breathe in deep When they crawl back, we're not hearing their apology They said that one was enough and that's all you get It's fine, everything's in your head Well, I've got thick skin So I cut my teeth on their glass ceiling We're in the fight of our lives, we came from the bottom There's no keeping us down In the fight of our lives, we won't be forgotten Do you hеar us now? So cut our tongues from our throats Drain my blood, break my bones You'rе not in control In the fight of our lives, you'll be forgotten So keep the gate 'cause we're coming for the throne Stack the odds right up against me Call this pigeon-hole opportunity Head full of dreams While we're begging for scraps from the powers that be Pass the buck from your left to your right hand Someone's problem, that's no skin off your back We don't come this far to just get this far So we'll take the ace from your house of cards We're in the fight of our lives, we came from the bottom There's no keeping us down In the fight of our lives, we won't be forgotten Do you hear us now? So cut our tongues from our throats Drain my blood, break my bones You're not in control In the fight of our lives, you'll be forgotten So keep the gate 'cause we're coming for the throne The king of the castle won't open the door But the fire burns brighter than ever before This is where history is rewrote We will not be ignored We will not be ignored We will not be ignored Maybe with heaven's help You'll finally ask yourself What the hell made you think you were ever a king? We're in the fight of our lives, we came from the bottom There's no keeping us down In the fight of our lives, we won't be forgotten Do you hear us now? So cut our tongues from our throats Drain my blood, break my bones You're not in control In the fight of our lives, you'll be forgotten So keep the gate 'cause we're coming for the throne

Submitted by SerpentEve — Feb 26, 2026