Too Loud to Breathe Lyrics

I step out and the air is heavy

Yesterday hums still close to my skin

But today there's a crack of light

A sense that maybe

This time the noise won't swallow me

Footsteps echo—are they mine?

Whispers tangle in the breeze

I tell myself it's quieter

Naïve enough to believe

The hum it crawls up my spine

But I'm still hopeful

Still walking forward through the blur

The street gnashes at my heels

Colours drip like oil

Blues blend with reds

They scream as they run

Every building pulses

Every step cracks louder

People flicker past like ghosts—

I scan their faces

Scan the silence between their words

It's all too close too bright

The walls are humming

The pavement cracks beneath the weight

Still I keep moving

Now the crowd wraps around me

Voices crash breaking through glass

I hear everything and nothing

Noise stacks like bricks in my chest

My breath too heavy gets lost

Dizzy spinning

The ground pulls me down

I can't escape the flood

The crowd's pulse becomes my own

Hands reaching faces spinning

But I can't find my way out

There's too much

And I can't breathe

Inside the lights burn white

Buzzing like they're alive

Shelves hum objects stare back

Their edges blur

Shapes twist as I blink

I lose track—

Why am I here?

My thoughts drown in static

Too many people too much movement

Every noise claws at me

Grabbing my skin

The aisles stretch

I forget what I was thinking

I need to get out

Back outside

But the city's pulse beats harder now

Every car every voice

It all screams together

Melding into one chaotic hum

I hear it all at once

But nothing makes sense

There's no space between the sounds

No room for me to hide

The pavement pulls me forward

The sky pushes me down

Every shadow breathes in time with the noise

I can't tell where I end and the city begins

It's too much

But I can't stop

Now I'm sinking

The city folds over

Noise turns to shadow

I slip beneath the hum

Each breath sharper

Each sound too loud

There's no room left to hide

No space left to think

The city hums louder

And I fall—

Deeper into the dark between sounds

If I don't find the quiet

It might never come