Waking in Reverse

[no_intro_vocalizations, instrumental_intro_only] [reverse_intro_swell] [balanced_stereo_field] [clean_top_end] [tape saturation, subtle analog warmth] Verse 1 Clocks unwind and the night won’t fade Dreams collapse where the daylight frays Every breath feels a step behind Like I’m walking backward through my mind Pre-Chorus The morning comes but it feels the same Like I’m trapped inside a broken frame Chorus I’m waking in reverse, falling through the past Every step I take just drags me back Time is a mirror, fractured and cursed I can’t move forward, I’m waking in reverse Verse 2 Pages turn but the words erase I can’t recall a single face Every echo pulls me down the hall Toward a door that was never there at all Pre-Chorus The morning comes but it feels the same Like I’m trapped inside a broken frame Chorus I’m waking in reverse, falling through the past Every step I take just drags me back Time is a mirror, fractured and cursed I can’t move forward, I’m waking in reverse Bridge Every nightmare wears daylight’s skin Every ending just begins again I try to run but the ground won’t stay And I keep slipping the other way Final Chorus I’m waking in reverse, falling through the past Every step I take just drags me back Time is a mirror, fractured and cursed I can’t move forward, I’m waking in reverse