Exhale from C4 AMORE by Stoneburner

This is how you look inside

This is the mouth you wear to hide

Here your scars spilling open

Gently ripping over time



There’s a collision inside you

Shattered pieces on the pavement

Every staring face indifferent

To the wreckage of you

Cameras flash in the gloom

Under the LA sun

Ruptured organs bloom



Iron pigments flood out

To paint boiling tarmac

And I am finally in the black

Yes I am finally in the black



Exhale memory inhale

Exhale history inhale

Exhale locker combinations

Your constant need for validation

Exhale belief in faith inhale

Exhale broken sleep inhale

Exhale your last genetic line

Your final spark of mind



This is how the world ends

No more time to make amends

Your choices chiseled in stone

Breath condensing on chrome

There’s a collision inside you

Flooding out onto the pavement

Every staring face backs away

So as not to taint their clothing

With the fingers of your fluids reaching out

Exchanging karma

A transfer of trauma

Your fate a contagion

The implications audacious



Exhale memory inhale

Exhale history inhale

Exhale locker combinations

Your constant need for validation

Exhale belief in faith inhale

Exhale broken sleep inhale

Exhale your last genetic line

Your final spark of mind



Exhale walks under shattered sky’s inhale

Exhale late night talks in parking lots inhale

Exhale every lovers body you have ever known inhale

Exhale all the lies that you have ever told inhale



What’s the weight of regret

How much space is on sorrow

What’s the value of individual breaths

How much blood will I need for tomorrow

Will my heart pump gasoline

Can my lungs breathe oil

How much weight can a rib cage take

At what temperature does blood begin to boil

How much skin does asphalt need to protect it from the cold

And here my teeth intact

In lines of tire tracks

Instead of fingers I see bone



Somewhere far away

Someone’s crying

Someone’s screaming in pain

It’s me it’s me it’s me

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