(Verse 1)
I taste the silence when you’re gone
Like blood in the back of my throat
Everything I built feels hollow now
But I’m still gripping hope
Cash running thin like my patience
Scraping change for a dream
You see the cracks in my reflection
But I still keep it clean
(Pre-Chorus)
I see your face when I close my eyes
Smile like a memory set on fire
I scream inside — but I smile outside
For you, I’d walk the wire
(Chorus)
Ghosts in the glow, I carry your names
Every scar’s a prayer I can’t explain
Not enough, never enough — still I try
For love, for peace, let the rest all die
(Verse 2)
Sleep is war in my head
Regret’s a noose ‘round my breath
Still I fight to be someone better
While drowning in my own depths
You said “Don’t break” — I’m bending
But I still rise through the ache
They laugh behind bitter screens
I’ll watch ‘em rot in the wake
(Bridge – whispered/screamed blend)
I’m not your hero
I’m just a man with a spine made of scars
But I’ll bleed for my people
While you die in your dark little war
(Chorus)
Ghosts in the glow, I carry your names
Every scar’s a prayer I can’t explain
Not enough, never enough — still I try
For love, for peace, let the rest all die
(Outro – atmospheric, drifting into ambience)
If I fall — let it be for love
If I fade — know I gave enough
I’m still here…
I’m still trying…
Even if it’s never enough
(Spoken softly, almost broken)
I gave you everything I had inside
But the world just keeps on taking
Even when I’m on my knees
I’m still reaching, still shaking
(Builds into full scream)
Don’t tell me what I’ll never be
Don’t write my fate in your disbelief
I am the fire under the flood
The sinner with a cause, the one they never could love
(Guitar swells, then drops into haunting clean singing)
I walk through ash for a chance to see
A day where you’re proud of me
Even if I fall short again
I’ll fail forward ‘til the bitter end
(Pre-Outro — drifting melody, layered whispers and harmonies)
They don’t know what it means to care
To break and still be there
For the ones you love, for the ones who stayed
I’d die every day