Split the Dark (Music Video)

By Acoustic Invasion · Alternative Metal

A boy learns to separate himself from something he can't name — and spends the rest of his life trying to put it back together. "Split the Dark" moves through a confrontation with an unnamed presence, a slow excavation of buried belief, and a reconciliation that never resolves into comfort.

Lyrics:

I woke with a pressure behind my brow

Three small points of warmth

pressed beneath the skin

I see that face when the room goes thin

A pale grin caught in the corner of sleep

It never speaks in a human tongue

It only tilts its head and waits

as if it knows the boy I hid

I reach toward the glass

It steps back

I call its name

The room turns black

Then somewhere underneath the fear

a quiet laugh says

you are near

I fall through the floor behind my eyes

Past the furniture, past the clock

Past every door that learned to lock

I surface with my teeth clenched hard

and scrape the film from the eye I hate

Not heaven

Not some promised throne

Just dirt on a lens

I mistook for my own

In

Out

Hold

Release

Count the ribs

Count the floor

then count no more

There was a sentence chalked beside the door

I could not read it then

but I carried the sound

through every argument

I spent years sharpening questions

until the questions became the cage

The answer was sitting

where I left it at eight

There you are

I know that face

I know those eyes

I know that place

I thought the long road finally closed

Come sit with me

Come stay awhile

You turn the whole machine upside down

Then you run

then you run

Why do you run from me?

Black wings cut across the ground

A crow hangs over the vacant lot

its beak points straight at what I forgot

I kneel where the dry earth breaks

Find a tooth

a rusted key

a child's sleeve

The hands are older

The mouth has learned to lie

But when I look into those eyes

something answers from inside

Two bright points

burning blue-white

I hear a tune I used to know

Just four notes

passed mouth to mouth

There you are

I know that face

I know those eyes

I know that place

I thought the long road finally closed

Come sit with me

Come stay awhile

You turn the whole machine upside down

Then you run

then you run

Why do you run from me?

Why do you run from me?

I split the dark

I split the dark

I split the

Dark

I thought the door was locked by fear

Teacher after teacher

gave the wound another name

Till the voice behind my forehead said

take the furniture out

So I pulled the scripture from the walls

I pulled the little god of certainty

from the hinge beside the door

Just the terrifying possibility

that I have been the one

drawing every line

And there you stood

Not punishing me

Standing exactly where I stopped looking

You thought I had left the room

I thought you had gone with the smoke

Two fools circling the same room

I chased commandments

You chased me

I spent so long trying to reach you

and never noticed you were reaching back

There you are

I know that face

I know those eyes

I know that place

I thought you left through the door

You thought I fled

We were both wrong

I was circling scripture

You were waiting beneath

I opened the eye

I opened the eye

and found myself

The medicine fades

The morning arrives

The walls reclaim their names

And still

I remember the weight of that gaze

So I go digging

I find the child beneath the argument

the frightened thing beneath the grin

I bring them upstairs

one at a time

This is not escape

This is inventory

I SPLIT THE DARK

I SPLIT THE DARK

I SPLIT THE DARK

In

Out

In

Out

Feel the skull

In

Out

Don't ask what's on the other side

DARK

Not for revelation

DARK

So I can see the hand

that keeps reaching through

DARK

So I can recognize the child

when the child looks back

There you are

I know you now

Not as a god

Not as a stranger's face

You are the witness

and the wound

And when you run

I will not chase

I will sit with the empty chair

and ask why I needed it filled

Split the dark

Split the dark

Not to escape the world

Split the dark

The door was never locked

Split the dark

DARK

The key was warm the whole time

Split the dark

Split the dark

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About Alternative Metal

A fusion of heavy metal with alternative rock elements, featuring unconventional song structures and eclectic influences that blend mainstream accessibility with aggressive instrumentation. Bands include: Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden

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