I’ll Be Around Forever

[Intro]
[Violin and piano
Distant thunder of drums]
I will never leave you
Even when I’m gone
[Verse 1]
Cold room
Your hands on my sweater
My name
Carved into the door
You talk
Like I’m at the table
Set a plate
Like I’ll walk in once more
[Pre-Chorus]
Every shadow on the stair
Feels like footsteps that you know
Close your eyes
I’m there
In the breath between the notes
[Chorus]
I will never leave you
Even when I’m gone
I’m still in your mind
I’ll be around forever
In the echo of your laughter
In the crack in every frame
When you hear your heartbeat answer
It is whispering my name (oh)
[Verse 2]
Street lights
Flicker on your window
You wear
My ring on a chain
You speak
Out loud to the darkness
Ask the dark
If I still feel the same
[Pre-Chorus]
Every shiver in your spine
Is my fingers laced with yours
Every dream you try to hide
I am standing at the door
[Chorus]
I will never leave you
Even when I’m gone
I’m still in your mind
I’ll be around forever
In the dust on your piano
In the jacket on your chair
Every time you say “remember”
I am breathing in the air (hey)
[Bridge]
[Female vocal
Then male joins
Drums tribal and heavy]
If you drown in all this quiet
I will sing inside your chest
If you’re broken
If you riot
I will circle
Never rest
When your heart is tired of beating
Let it lean against my name
I am written in your seasons
I am carved beneath your veins
[Chorus]
I will never leave you
Even when I’m gone
I’m still in your mind
I’ll be around forever
In the spaces in your story
In the scars you try to hide
Every time you think you’ve lost me
I am standing by your side
[Outro]
[Instruments fall away
Soft duet]
I will never leave you
Even when I’m gone
I’m still in your mind
I’ll be around forever

rock, Slow-blooming goth metal ballad: intimate violin and piano intro, Nordic-style frame drum pulse and low male chant on the first vocal line, then distorted electric guitar and roomy live drums crash in. Male and female vocals trade lines in the verse, join in a big, anthemic chorus with stacked harmonies and a soaring lead guitar countermelody. Final chorus pulls instruments back for one haunting vocal refrain, then ends on a sustained violin and guitar chord., metal, violin, slow, female vocals, vocal