[Verse 1]
Born in the static of broken rooms
Where every wall had teeth and every smile was a trap
I learned the shape of danger before I learned my name
Swallowed whole by the noise, no edge left to claim

Absorption was the only prayer they taught
Melt into the storm so it won’t notice you
But the storm keeps eating and the storm keeps growing
And I was just another soft thing it chewed through

[Chorus]
Cessation of the flood
I pull my skin back from the flood
Differentiated now
I see the knife for what it is
Not me, not mine, not us
Honed by the unsafe years
I cut the cord and watch it bleed

[Verse 2]
Childhood was a hallway with no doors that locked
Every shadow wore a face I had to wear too
Projected every fear until the fear became the floor
Until I couldn’t tell the poison from the food

Then something cracked—the mirror or the mind
Perception split like wood under a rusted axe
I saw the room without becoming the room
Saw the hands that hit without becoming the hands

[Chorus]
Cessation of the flood
I pull my skin back from the flood
Differentiated now
I see the knife for what it is
Not me, not mine, not us
Honed by the unsafe years
I cut the cord and watch it bleed

[Bridge]
No more drowning in the collective dark
No more wearing every wound like it was born on me
The self is not the house that tried to kill it
The self is the thing that finally walked free

I am the edge that learned to stay sharp
I am the eye that stopped dissolving
Cessation… differentiation…
I am not the environment that raised me

[Chorus]
Cessation of the flood
I pull my skin back from the flood
Differentiated now
I see the knife for what it is
Not me, not mine, not us
Honed by the unsafe years
I cut the cord and watch it bleed

[Outro]
Not absorbed… not absorbed…
Just the cut that finally stayed

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