[Intro – Clean eerie guitar, distant thunder, slow-building drums]
Cold wind crawling through the broken pines
Moonlight hanging over warning signs
Footsteps echo where the dead air sleeps
Something in the dark is watching me
[Lead guitar melody rises]
[Verse 1]
Black clouds gathering over rusted ground
Silence screaming without a sound
Every shadow twisting out of shape
Every mile feeling like a grave
Eyes in the darkness, locked on mine
Frozen in place, running out of time
[Pre-Chorus]
I can feel it drawing near
Feeding on my doubt and fear
[Chorus]
That stone cold stare
Cuts right through the night air
Standing motionless there
With a stone cold stare
That stone cold stare
Like a curse hanging somewhere
Can’t escape, can’t prepare
For that stone cold stare
[Guitar Solo #1 – Melodic and haunting]
[Verse 2]
Broken streetlights flicker overhead
Whispers rising from the riverbed
Every breath turning into smoke
Every nerve stretched beyond the rope
The deeper I run, the closer it gets
Dragging chains of old regrets
[Pre-Chorus]
I can hear it call my name
Nothing ever stays the same
[Chorus]
That stone cold stare
Cuts right through the night air
Standing motionless there
With a stone cold stare
That stone cold stare
Like a curse hanging somewhere
Can’t escape, can’t prepare
For that stone cold stare
[Bridge – Heavy Half-Time Section]
Face like granite
Heart like steel
No emotion left to feel
Watching
Waiting
Never blinking
Never fading
[Guitar Solo #2 – Fast, aggressive shredding]
[Breakdown]
The night grows darker
The silence grows deep
The thing in the shadows
Isn’t letting me leave
[Final Chorus]
That stone cold stare
Burned itself into the air
Follows me everywhere
That stone cold stare
That stone cold stare
Still waiting somewhere
Long after I disappear
That stone cold stare
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[Outro – Clean guitar fading into distant feedback]
The shadows remain…
And the eyes never close…
AshesofEden
