downfall/NYRA

[Verse 1] I said your name and something in me slipped like a loose stair giving out under weight I watch the frame split at the seam and in this room the floor keeps leaning (still here) (still here) [Pre-Chorus] No answer is fine I can stand in the ruin in the gap between sounds I hear the drop begin The closer I lean in the more the shape gives way but under my ribs the crack keeps working [Chorus] Downfall, downfall what we set in motion Downfall, downfall don’t stop halfway Downfall, downfall if it’s got to take me let it come clean through let me hear it [Verse 2] Outside the window the afternoon comes apart on the wet pavement my shadow loses pieces Words I left there I pick them up again flat in my hand now like coins from a drain (give it back) (give it back) [Pre-Chorus] No answer is fine I can stand in the ruin in the gap between sounds I hear the drop begin The closer I lean in the more the shape gives way but under my ribs the crack keeps working [Chorus] Downfall, downfall what we set in motion Downfall, downfall don’t stop halfway Downfall, downfall if it’s got to take me let it come clean through let me hear it [Bridge] Even if it bottoms out the echo stays like heat in a wire after the current goes You don’t have to say what I already know I’ll keep pulling at it until it turns to dust [Final Chorus] Downfall, downfall what we set in motion Downfall, downfall don’t stop halfway Downfall, downfall if it’s got to take me let it come clean through for the last time (Downfall, downfall) (Downfall, downfall) "Don’t stop halfway. Let me hear the sound of us breaking." A love buckling like a loose stair. Rejecting lingering attachments, the tense ballad "Downfall" demands the sharp clarity of a definitive end. Discarded words like coins from a drain, and emotional echoes like heat in a wire—this painful yet sublime masterpiece captures the absolute resolve to watch a beautiful collapse until it all turns to dust.