grindgrindgrind - AD CULVAIN (lyrics)

 grindgrindgrind

grindgrindgrind—

my jaw, my mind

chewing glass, spitting flags

you talk like rust

you walk like dust

you bleed bleach and beg for masks

say it’s “just a joke”

say it “used to be better”

say “go back”

say “not all of us”

say “I’m just saying”

say “what about them”

say nothing

say

nothing

I’ve seen your smirk,

your whisper behind the cough

your handshake like a noose

your eyes—coin-flip cold

like you own the goddamn oxygen

you point with a map you burned

you cry “they’re angry”

when we’re already ashes

already gasping

already learning to walk

with knees on necks

with names erased

with clocks that only go back

you

you

YOU.

are the fire you fear

are the echo in the smear

are the wall in the mirror

are the boot in the dream

are the nail in the hymn

are the rot

in the “great”

in the “again”

in the “why can’t we just”

I want your statues dusted

your slogans drowned

your history unspooled

your silence made loud

I want you to see

with eyes not your own

through windows you’ve bricked

through lives you’ve loaned

and stolen

and drained

and blamed

marchmarchmarch

then kneel

then choke

then crawl

then speak

then scream

then burn it all

burn it 

This isn’t a song.

It’s a faultline.

You made it.

We live on it.

You step back now, or you fall in.