Soft Collapse

[Intro] Spinning wheels and fading dreams Metal hearts and broken seams Father's hands, they used to shake When memories would start to wake [Verse 1] Cotton dust and rusty gears Twenty years of swallowed fears I watched you fade like morning light As machines ate up the night The factory's hollow lullaby Echoes still make angels cry Your calloused hands told stories true Of what this life can do to you [Chorus] And the wheels keep turning down Till there's nothing left to grind Like a ghost within the crown Of an empire left behind Watch it all break down so slow Like a dance of dying light Everything we used to know Fading into quiet night [Verse 2] Steel-toothed monster breathing slow Wearing down with every blow I remember how it seemed When reality crashed through our dreams The day the gears stopped turning right Your eyes held such a different light No screams, no crash, just quiet death As metal took its final breath [Bridge] In the hum of failing parts Found the rhythm of our hearts Nothing breaks the way we think Just dissolves right at the brink Like stars that slowly fade away Or love that couldn't make us stay [Chorus] And the wheels keep turning down Till there's nothing left to grind Like a ghost within the crown Of an empire left behind Watch it all break down so slow Like a dance of dying light Everything we used to know Fading into quiet night [Outro] Now I watch these empty halls Where shadows dance on concrete walls Your ghost still lingers in machines That whisper static through my dreams The mill still stands but time moves on Like broken notes in this sad song Some things don't break, they just decay Till memory takes them all away