Ashes of Who I Was

[Intro]
I kept your picture
Facedown in the drawer
Dust on the frame
Like dust on my throat
[Verse 1]
I tried to be gentle
Soft hands
Quiet tongue
Swallowed every echo
Of the venom on my lungs
I built you a heaven
In the hollow of my chest
But every whispered promise
Turned the marrow into rust
[Pre-Chorus]
Your name was a chain
Now it hangs like a trophy
All of this pain
Starts tasting holy
[Chorus]
So I burn it all
Burn it all
Every tender little lie that I ever called love
Let the ashes fall
Ashes fall
On the grave of who I was
I’m done being human for you
Every memory
I rip it apart
I tear out the heart you knew
And wake up the beast in the dark
[Verse 2]
You left your letters
Like knives in the drawer
I read them for years
Till the ink became sores
Now I light each corner
Watch the paper curl and scream
The smoke writes a sermon
I’m too proud to believe
[Pre-Chorus]
Your voice was a cage
Now it cracks as I’m laughing
Every good deed
Just fuel for the cracking
[Chorus]
So I burn it all
Burn it all
Every tender little lie that I ever called love
Let the ashes fall
Ashes fall
On the grave of who I was
I’m done being human for you
Every memory
I rip it apart
I tear out the heart you knew
And wake up the beast in the dark
[Bridge]
[female vocal
Soft
Exposed]
I lay down my halo
On the floor by the door
Let it gather spiderwebs
I don’t need it anymore
I trade every daylight
For the comfort of the void
If there’s a soul inside me
It’s better destroyed
[male roar enters
Call-and-response]
(male) I renounce redemption
(female) I release what made me kind
(male) I embrace corruption
(female) Let it hollow out my mind
(both) I become the hunger
(both) I become the knife
(both) I become the monster
That survives your kind of life
[Final Chorus]
So I burn it all
Burn it all (burn!)
Every tender little lie that I ever called love
Let the ashes fall
Ashes fall
On the grave of who I was
I’m done being human for you (for you)
Every memory
I tear it apart
I walk from the flames brand new
(an immoral monster)
With your ghost rotting out in my heart
[Outro]
[male low growl]
No more halos
Just these teeth
[female
Distant]
I forget you
So I can breathe

metal, Crushing modern metal with dual male/female vocals: clean, reverb-soaked guitars and distant toms in a slow-build intro, swelling into palm-muted chugs with cinematic synth pads. Verse sits in a brooding halftime groove; chorus explodes with wide melodic leads, double-kick surges, and stacked female harmonies over a guttural male roar call-and-response. Final section drops to half-time, sub-heavy and punishing, for the full monster transformation., clean, slow, vocal, beautiful