Aches

Instrumental Intro (long, atmospheric, swelling)

No lyrics — just tension, reverb-soaked guitars, low drones, heartbeat-like drums slowly waking up.

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Verse 1

I feel the ceiling pressing down,

Shadows drip like poison from the walls.

My heartbeat crawls across the floor,

A quiet animal waiting for the fall.

The silence aches like open wounds,

Every breath a question with no name.

I watch my thoughts dissolve like smoke,

Into the dark—familiar, cold, the same.

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Verse 2

My bones remember nights like these,

The trembling world beneath my skin.

The weight, the doubt, the quiet scream,

The fear that whispers I won’t win.

But through the cracks, a dim light pulses—

A distant signal calling from within.

A promise buried, but still breathing,

A quiet oath to rise again.

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Long Bridge (growing, stretching, intensifying)

I’ve walked through the fire of my own mind,

Ash on my hands, ghosts at my back.

Every step a war I didn’t choose,

Every breath stolen, clawed, taken back.

But something deeper moves inside me—

A storm that doesn’t bow or break.

A reason bigger than the fear,

A life I haven’t lived yet—

But ache to make.

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Chorus (first appearance)

I’m still standing in the ruins of myself,

Reaching upward from the dark I know too well.

If the night won’t let me go,

I’ll rise anyway—

For something greater,

Greater than myself.

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Verse 3

The mirror shows the cracks and lines,

Proof of every battle I survived.

And though the darkness knows my name,

It fears the fire growing in my eyes.

I’m done being a passenger

To storms that never were my own.

I choose the path that scars my feet—

Because that is where the seeds are sown.

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Epic Solo → Reprise of Chorus

(Massive guitar break — tension → ignition → eruption)

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Final Long Instrumental Explosion

Drums open up, guitars soar, synths widen, everything breaks into a wall of color and defiance.

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Pre-Chorus (short, intense, rising)

I feel the weight begin to burn,

But I won’t break—

I only turn

Into the fire, into the fight—

I’m made for more

Than just the night.

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Final Chorus

I’m still standing in the ruins of myself,

Reaching upward from the dark I know too well.

And if the night won’t let me go,

I’ll rise anyway—

For something greater,

Greater than myself.

I’m still fighting for a life beyond the pain,

Every heartbeat like a war I choose to wage.

And though the shadows try to pull me down,

I rise again—

For something greater,

Greater than myself.

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Outro (soft, fading, resolute)

Whispered through the smoke…

I’m still here.

I’m still here.

Becoming something

Greater than myself.