(Dark Metal Ballad · Baritone Growl → Clean High Range)
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Intro (Sparse piano – low, hollow notes, distant wind)
Graves…
Chains…
No rest…
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Verse 1 (Low baritone – restrained, close-mic)
I lived where the dead were buried
Where no one comes by choice
They tried to chain me to silence
But the darkness had a louder voice
I broke every iron they wrapped me in
Ran naked through the night
Carved my pain into stone and skin
Just to feel like I was alive
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Pre-Chorus (Baritone rises – tension building)
They knew my name before I did
Called me danger, called me lost
But when You stepped onto that shoreline
Everything I was began to stop
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Chorus (Clean vocal – wide, aching)
What is your name
You asked the storm in me
I said I’m many, I’m broken
I’m more than I should be
But You weren’t afraid of the voices
You didn’t turn away
You spoke with authority
And the darkness had to stay in its place
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Verse 2 (Baritone with grit – drums enter slowly)
The demons recognized You
Before I ever could
They begged You not to send them
Where mercy never stood
You let the pigs take the chaos
Let the sea swallow the scream
And for the first time in years
I remembered what peace means
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Pre-Chorus 2 (Half-growl → clean lift)
You didn’t ask what I had done
You didn’t count the scars
You saw a man beneath the madness
And called me back from where I was
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Chorus 2 (Full band – heavier, darker)
What is your name
You asked the storm in me
I said I’m many, I’m broken
I’m more than I should be
But You weren’t afraid of the voices
You didn’t turn away
You spoke with authority
And the darkness had to stay in its place
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Bridge (Low growl → sudden clean authority)
(Slow, sustained baritone growl — one continuous line, no pauses)
My name is Leagion for we are many living inside this broken man
(brief instrumental swell — tension builds)
(Different voice, Sudden clean, powerful, commanding vocal — crisp, angelic authority)
Not anymore
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Bridge 2 (Clean vocal – exposed, emotional peak)
They found me sitting clothed and steady
Right where the chaos died
The man they feared was finally free
Standing in his right mind
I begged to go where You were going
To leave this land behind
But You said, “Go tell what mercy did”
And I obeyed this time
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Final Chorus (Massive swell – clean high range over crushing band)
You asked my name and gave me one
I didn’t have before
You broke the chains no man could hold
And opened up the door
I wasn’t saved by isolation
I was sent back changed and whole
Delivered in Your presence
And restored into my soul
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Outro (Instruments drop → piano + whisper)
Go tell…
What mercy did…
(final piano note rings)
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