Stutter Midnight Dream

Lyrics by Adrian Breahna In the cathedral of broken tongues I kneel, Where silence wears a crown of steel, My words dissolve like ash in rain, A choir of ghosts repeats my name. The mirror cracks before I speak, It knows the truth I dare not seek, Each syllable a falling star, Burning out before it scars. I chase a voice beyond the flame, A perfect echo with no name, But every step, the shadows gleam— They stitch my breath into a scream. [Chorus] I stutter in my midnight dream, Where nothing’s ever as it seems, A golden tongue I cannot claim, A silent god without a name. I stutter in my midnight dream, Torn apart at every seam, I reach for light that slips between— The words I’ll never be. The clockwork heart begins to race, Neon veins beneath my face, In electric storms I try to shout, But static pulls the meaning out. A thousand versions of me stand, All speaking truths I can’t command, They dance in rhythm, sharp and clean, While I dissolve behind the screen. The rhythm pounds like borrowed breath, A pulse that mocks my quiet death, I build a voice from shattered screams— But wake before it ever dreams. [Chorus] I stutter in my midnight dream, Where nothing’s ever as it seems, A silver key I cannot turn, A fire that refuses burn. I stutter in my midnight dream, Lost inside the in-between, I reach for words that drift unseen— The voice I’ll never be. Break—break—break the sound… Drown—drown—drown it out… A pulse, a glitch, a fractured hymn, The world goes dark, the lights go dim, If I could scream without a seam, Would I survive the in-between? Every echo bends and sways, Every word decays, decays— In the void I almost gleam… I stutter in my midnight dream, A shattered crown, a silent king, The perfect voice just out of reach, A truth I’ll never dare to speak. I stutter in my midnight dream, Bound to what I might have been, Forever chasing what can’t be— The fluent ghost of me. In the end, no sound remains, Only rhythm in my veins… And somewhere past the fractured stream— I speak… Just not in this dream.