Ghosts in the glow

(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