Dead Still Walking

The lights went out again

But something's still awake

I hear it breathing

Underneath the floor

Ash falls softly through the street Broken glass beneath my feet Every

window holds a face That shouldn't still be in this place Someone

whispers through the wall Someone answers when I call Not a heartbeat,

not a sound Still I feel them underground

Don't tell me morning's coming I've heard that lie before

The dead don't need permission

They're already at the door

There's no salvation here No hand reaching through the dark No heaven

left to hear us No light to leave a mark So let

them crawl Let them rise Let them stare with empty eyes If

no one's coming for me I'll survive without salvation

Piano playing down the hall No one's sitting there at all Blackened

fingers scrape the keys Playing dead men's melodies Something moves behind the

glass Something ancient slipping past Every shadow bends and grows Where it

ends, nobody knows

I stopped asking for an answer When the voices knew my name

If the world became a graveyard Then I'll learn to love the

rain

They said run

They said hide

They said pray until the morning But morning never came They said

God

They said hope

They said someone would be coming

Nobody

came

So open the door I'M DONE WAITING Let every dead thing inside

COME FIND ME You took the world You took the light But

you haven't fucking taken mine

THERE'S NO SALVATION HERE

And I don't need it anymore

No heaven left above me

Just the dead outside the door Let them crawl Let them rise

I can see them in the light If no one's coming for

me

THEN I'LL FUCKING STAY ALIVE No rescue No answer No salvation Just

me And whatever's still breathing.