From the recording Dissolution
“Stay Away” functions as a restrained fracture point within Dissolution — a moment where separation is acknowledged but never completed. The track carries a persistent rhythmic undercurrent, but instead of release, it reinforces a loop of internal tension: distance becomes a command that cannot be followed.
Within the album’s broader narrative of identity breaking into fragments, this piece captures the stage where memory refuses to dissolve. The subject is no longer physically present, yet remains embedded in pattern, repetition, and reflex. The voice does not confront or collapse - it endures, circling the same emotional structure without resolution.
Sonically, the track maintains forward motion while holding back any sense of climax, emphasizing control over catharsis. This makes “Stay Away” less about departure and more about the impossibility of clean separation - a lingering state where absence continues to shape presence.
In the context of Dissolution, it marks the transition from loss as an event to loss as a condition.
Lyrics
I saw your shadow on my door again
Not even knocking, just seeping in
Your voice was crawling through the frame
Saying my name like it’s a game
You leave your echo in my head
Twist every word I never said
I bite my tongue, I play it straight
But every silence starts to break
Stay away, stay away
Don’t come closer, don’t you stay
Every step you recreate
Pulls me under, seals my fate
Stay away, stay away
I mean it more with every day
But my hands betray the line
Every single time
Your fingerprints on everything
Even the air I try to breathe
I changed the locks, I changed the code
You still find ways inside my bones
You turn my calm into a scene
Cut every thread that kept me clean
I feel you moving under skin
Like something that I let begin
Stay away, stay away
Don’t come closer, don’t you stay
Every step you recreate
Pulls me under, seals my fate
Stay away, stay away
I mean it more with every day
But my hands betray the line
Every single time
I draw a circle on the floor
Swear I won’t open up the door
But when you call, I lose the thread
And let you live inside my head
Stay away, stay away
But I hear every word you say
Every line I try to erase
Still comes back to take its place
Stay away… stay away…
I whisper, but I decay
You don’t leave, you never stray
You just make me say: stay away