In The Hanging Gardens

[Intro — soft piano + ambient synths • whispered vocals]

In the gardens where the rivers used to shine,
we held each other like the world was ours to keep.
But the sky cracked,
and the walls whispered of the end.

You said, “I won’t leave you,”
and I believed you,
even as the stars fell silent above Babylon.

[Verse 1 — clean vocals • soft piano + ambient synths + reverb guitars]
We traced the vines, our fingers twined,
Through blossoms fading, left behind.
The fire sky reflected in your eyes,
A world collapsing, yet we rise.

Each heartbeat drummed a fragile vow,
To stay together, here and now.
Though everything else falls away,
In these gardens, we will stay.
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[Pre-Chorus — rising tension • atmospheric guitars + synths + soft pads]
[Atmospheric guitars, swelling synths, soft pads, minimal percussion]
If the world ends tonight,
Let it end in our light.
Let our shadows linger near,
Where no one else can interfere.
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[Chorus — soaring vocals • layered guitars + strings + synth layers]
[Clean soaring vocals, layered guitars, strings, synth pads, subtle percussion]
Hold me close as the skies descend,
Let the rivers run, let the walls bend.
If this is the last breath we take,
I’ll breathe it with you, make no mistake.

Through fire, through ash, through broken stone,
We’ll face the end, but not alone.
In the Hanging Gardens, hand in hand,
We’ll be the last to make a stand.
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[Verse 2 — melodic, haunting • clean/screamed duality]
[Piano, ambient synths, soft percussion, clean and screamed vocal layers]
I watched your light fade in the flame,
The world beneath us never the same.
The vines around our feet did creep,
While shadows whispered, the sky would weep.

Too bright, too fragile, too wild to save,
Yet in this ruin, we are brave.
Every leaf and shattered stone,
Witnesses the love we own.
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[Bridge — heavy, climactic • distorted guitars, synth drones, drums, screamed vocals + clean overlay]
[Distorted guitars, heavy synth drones, full drum kit, screamed vocals, clean harmonics overlay]
[Screamed, freeform — no rhyme]
I can’t live in a world without your hand in mine!
I can’t feel the sun without your eyes in mine!

[Clean layered over the screams — freeform]
If death has claimed you,
then death will claim me too.
We will not be apart…
Not even in eternity.
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[Verse 3 — rhymed, cinematic • piano, strings, ambient synths]
I followed you into the dark,
Where gardens mourned and left their mark.
The vines curled round each broken stone,
Yet in your arms, I was not alone.

The sky fell silent, the rivers ran dry,
I kissed your lips, I said goodbye.
Our love became the final light,
That lingered long beyond the night.
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[Outro — long, somber, cinematic fade • piano + synth drones + fading strings + whispering echoes]
[Piano, ambient synth drones, fading strings, whispering vocal echoes]
The gardens weep for what we were,
Every leaf remembers, every vine stirs.
Together we fell, together we stay,
Even as the world washed away.

Epic, cinematic progressive metal, dark ambient synths, soaring vocals, heavy guitars, tragic, spacey atmosphere, male