[Intro – Whisper over piano]
Can you hear them?
They’re carving my name into the walls…
Before they know my story.
(Heartbeat… strings rise… explosion.)
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[Verse 1]
I built a kingdom out of broken bones,
Hung every failure like a trophy at home.
Everybody loves a hero until they see him bleed,
Then they sharpen every headline while they’re planting the seeds.
I learned that love has a knife in its smile,
That heaven gets quieter mile after mile.
I’m dragging chains that nobody can see,
Still they swear that the monster is me.
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[Pre-Chorus]
Tell me—
If I disappear tonight…
Would you finally sleep?
Or would the silence scream louder than me?
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[Chorus]
Set the skyline on fire—
Watch me rise from the smoke again.
Every scar’s another choir,
Singing, “You’ll never break him.”
You can bury my heartbeat,
You can throw me into the flames…
But ashes don’t remember failure—
They only remember names.
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[Verse 2 – Fast melodic rap]
Everybody wanna judge from a ten-second clip,
Never walked in my shoes, never tasted this pit.
I’ve been dancing with devils in expensive suits,
While they’re selling fake halos with designer boots.
Smile for the cameras—
Cry when they leave.
Truth gets expensive when lies are free.
I’ve been one foot in heaven,
One foot in hell…
Still somehow I lived long enough
To tell.
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[Bridge – Choir builds]
Maybe I’m the villain…
Maybe I’m the cure…
Maybe every broken heart
Was only making mine endure.
If the world’s gonna paint me black—
I’ll become the night.
If they want a war—
Then I’ll become the fight.
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[Breakdown]
YOU WANTED A MONSTER?!
HERE I AM!
I stitched my soul together with the pieces that you threw away!
Every “NO!”
Every “QUIT!”
Every coffin that you built—
BECAME THE STAIRS
THAT LED ME HERE!
(Blegh!)
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[Final Chorus – Full orchestra, choir, double kick drums]
Set the skyline on fire—
Hear the heavens shake my name.
Every wound became a weapon,
Every loss became a flame.
If tomorrow never finds me…
Don’t you dare say I was gone.
Legends never die—
They echo…
They march…
They carry on.
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[Outro – Soft piano]
One day…
They’ll tell my story
Like they knew me all along.
But the ashes…
The ashes know the truth.
x1xGenz
