ABSENT ECHO
OUT NOW

5. Empty Frame

Lyrics • Breaking The Seal

Verse

Check, every word is a wire and I’m tripped up

Caught in the middle of a script I can’t trust

Play the part, keep the peace, hold the line

But this moral high ground is a mountain I can’t climb

Obligation, heavy debt, hollow vow

Suffocating under who I’m supposed to be now

Different worlds, different eyes, different truth

Tired of stitching up the seams of polite abuse

It’s not a fight, it’s a structural fail

I’m a ghost in a house that’s already for sale

Pre-Chorus

Holding my breath… till there’s nothing left

Letting it go… you already know

Chorus

I’M EMPTY — nothing left inside to break

I’M WAITING — for the truth to finally take

Buried alive by the right thing to do

But the hardest part of leaving is being honest with you

I’m fading out… inside the shadow of doubt

Verse

Back and forth, circling the drain again

Same fight, different night, where did the pain begin

You see tomorrow — I see the end

Can’t fake being who you want me to pretend

Cage made of shoulds and musts and maybes

Silence screaming, driving me crazy

Truth coming cold, no filter, no disguise

Anchor too heavy and I’m losing the line

No more excuses, no more trying to pretend

The debt is paid, this is the end

Pre-Chorus

Holding my breath… till there’s nothing left

Letting it go… I’M LETTING GO

Chorus

I’M EMPTY — nothing left inside to break

I’M WAITING — for the truth to finally take

Buried alive by the right thing to do

But the hardest part of leaving is being honest with you

Bridge

Unspoken words filling up the room

Every silent moment digging the tomb

Everything we didn’t say is screaming inside

Everything we didn’t say is where we died

Breakdown

CAN’T BREATHE

CAN’T BREATHE

TELL ME THE TRUTH

TELL ME THE TRUTH

Pressure rising

Walls closing in

Say it out loud

Let it end

Final Chorus

I’M EMPTY — but I’m finally awake

I’M BREAKING — every chain I couldn’t shake

You buried me with the right thing to do

Now I’m walking away from the wreckage of you

I’m fading out… but I’m finally free

Outro

The weight is gone… the air is cold

I’m breaking free… out of the mold

It’s over now…

It’s over now…