The burden shifts Assuming new malignant forms With every loss Another wound to be borne A growing sense A claustrophobic scene We felt the pull, falling back To the spaces in between We descend To depths hitherto unknown Beset by stabbing blades so finely honed Injuries compound By many hands restrained Every tiny cut leaves us further drained On sorrow's spectrum A matter of degrees The breaking point It's the hardest place to be Lost in a haze Precious time slips away Reduced to the essentials To survive another day Bear the weight With the tensile strength of steel A sad refrain How can all of this be real? Events collapse Cannot stop the bleed A rush of storming stress at such high speed Holding on for life When every door is barred A downward force that pulls so very hard On sorrow's spectrum A matter of degrees The breaking point It's the hardest place to be We are still burning Before the blaze, a spark There are places we can't go alone So we'll find each other in the dark