The shack still breathes

[Intro] They say the woods hide ghosts. But this place? This place remembers. It don’t forget pain. It don’t forget b***d. It just… waits. [Verse 1] Stumbled on it mid-January freeze, Timber bones and rusted keys. Roof was broke, wind whistled low, Like it knew my name from long ago. No tracks near, no sign of life, But the door swung open like it held a k***e. Inside smelled like rot and sin, Like ten d**d secrets screamin’ within. Walls scratched deep—fingernail trails, Names half-carved, stories in nails. I laid down near an old b***d stain, And dreamed of fire, and dogs, and chains. [chorus] The shack still breathes, I heard it sigh. Every board like a rib In a body that died. The shack still sees, I felt them stare— Eyes in the wall, Dust in the prayer. This ain’t home, It’s a tomb with heat. But I slept just fine… ‘Cause the d**d don’t eat. [Verse 2] Found bones in a sack behind the stove, Children’s teeth and a preacher’s robe. Someone laughed but it weren’t me, Sound came low from beneath the beams. Felt like I’d been here all my life, In that damp, d**d place without no light. Heard Mama’s voice from under the floor, “K**l ‘fore you beg, bleed ‘fore you’re poor.” I ain’t ran, I ain’t prayed, Just sharpened steel and watched the blade. Crows on the roof, pigs in the mire— Everything sleepin’ too close to fire. [bridge] We remember you, Burlap. We remember the scream you swallowed. We remember the hunger you buried… And the boy you left behind. This is where you was born. Not from womb— From wound. [chorus] The shack still breathes, I heard it sigh. Every board like a rib In a body that died. The shack still sees, I felt them stare— Eyes in the wall, Dust in the prayer. This ain’t home, It’s a tomb with heat. But I slept just fine… ‘Cause the d**d don’t eat. [Outro] I left the next day, But it stayed in me. That shack… It don’t need walls to keep me inside. I carry it now. I am the breath. I am the floor. I am the thing waitin’ behind the door.