[Intro — low jouhikko drone, whispered]
Twilight gathers at the edges—
a violet bruise across the sky.
Another life dissolves behind me,
and still…
I rise from the ashes I don’t remember dying in.
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[Verse 1 — soft, sacred, cryptic]
I have worn a thousand faces,
none of them entirely mine.
I have drowned in every lifetime,
pulled beneath the undertide.
Every choice I ever forfeited
burns beneath my fractured ribs—
A history of borrowed shadows
etched upon my fingertips.
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[Pre-Chorus — breathy, strange, ritualistic]
The dusk undresses me of memory,
shows the scars beneath the skin.
And twilight hums an ancient warning:
“What you repeat… you live again.”
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[Chorus — haunting, melodic, but understated]
I walk the wheel of ages,
bound to patterns I can’t see.
Each rebirth a fading echo
of the soul I swore to be.
Yet somewhere in the twilight,
a fracture in the veil appears—
A whisper of deliverance
from the weight of all my years.
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[Verse 2 — deeper, more dreamlike]
I’ve been a servant to the spiral,
a pilgrim of forgotten sins—
Returning to the same cold thresholds,
knocking just to fall again.
My heartbeat knows the ritual,
the rhythm of my former deaths—
But in the hush between each lifetime,
I feel a shift inside my chest.
A trembling…
Like the universe remembering
my true name.
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[Pre-Chorus — softer, mournful]
If twilight is a doorway,
then maybe I’m the key—
Turning slowly through the lifetimes
toward the one I’m meant to be.
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[Chorus — more ethereal, less anthemic]
I walk the wheel of ages,
bound to patterns I can’t see.
Each rebirth a fading echo
of the soul I swore to be.
But now the twilight calls me
to fracture what I’ve been—
To break the ghost that lingers
and let a new life begin.
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[Breakdown — downtuned, crushing, jouhikko wailing like a banshee]
LET
THE
PAST
DIE.
I tear the cycle from my spine—
every lifetime, every lie.
BREAK—THE—WHEEL
THAT—HOLDS—ME—DOWN.
I sever the tether,
I shatter the crown,
I bury the versions
that dragged me to ground—
I WILL NOT BE
REBORN TO BLEED AGAIN.
[Jouhikko screeches, distorted like a ritual gone wrong]
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[Extended Outro — heavy, sad, cinematic, soul-crushing]
The twilight trembles…
like it knows
this is the last time
I will carry the weight
of who I used to be.
The world dims to a fading ember,
and every past mistake
falls away like dying stars.
I walk alone
into the quiet beyond the veil—
no chorus,
no glory,
just a soul unraveling
everything it ever was.
The Jouhikko moans
like a wound that’s learning how to close,
one fragile note at a time.
And as the final dusk consumes me,
I whisper to the next life:
“Let me arrive
unbroken.”
The light fades.
The cycle ends.
And something new awakens
in the silence.
[Musical Interlude — instruments only, somber feel and soft, ambient pads wail off key of the jouhikko]
Atlantica
