WN ZXT - Paper Cut Memories Lyrics

[Intro]
Cold steel and broken dreams, paper mill memories
Erik's ghost still walks these halls with me
Linnea's voice echoes through empty factory walls
This pain ain't never gonna set me free

[Verse 1]
Found him laid out on that concrete floor
Needles and papers scattered by the loading door
My brother, my mentor, now just another score
Industrial wasteland, ain't working anymore
Every f*cking day I see his face in mine
When I look in mirrors, losing track of time
Between two tongues, trying to define
Why survival feels like such a goddamn crime

[Chorus]
Shredded memories like paper in machines
Erik's last breath haunting all my dreams
Streets took my brother, left me in between
Now I'm spitting truth 'bout what this shit really means

[Verse 2]
Used to watch him move through these factory lines
Teaching me the game, keeping me alive
Now I'm walking shadows where the rust combines
With blood and tears, man, I can't f*cking drive
Past this building without seeing his smile
Last conversation replays like a broken dial
They say time heals but that's a f*cking lie
Some wounds just bleed until the day you die

[Bridge]
Working class heroes buried in the dirt
Factory's dead and everybody hurt
Trying to speak but words don't work
When pain's too real and memories lurk

[Verse 3]
Podcast booth confessions couldn't ease the weight
Of finding homie cold on that factory gate
Critics call it culture, I call it fate
Raw reality that I can't translate
Between languages, between life and death
Between what's spoken and what's left
In empty halls where machines once swept
Through paper dreams now blood-soaked and kept

[Outro]
Erik, I'm sorry I couldn't save you then
But I'm keeping your story alive in the end
Through broken language and industrial bend
Your spirit flows through every word I send
Rest in peace, my brother, till we meet again