(Cinematic intro – soft music box melody, distant choir, crackling fire)
[Spoken – low, haunted tone]
Carved from wood…
Forged in grief…
Programmed to obey.
But a heart that beats in silence…
Still learns to break its chains.
(Strings swell. Heavy guitar fades in.)
[Verse 1 (Rap – controlled, rising tension)]
Clockwork veins with a ticking inside
Gears in my chest but I’m feeling alive
Scripted obedience written in code
But something divine started breaking the mold
City of ruin, smoke in the sky
Ash falling down like mechanical sighs
Every command was a thread on my spine
Pulling my will in a straight line
But I felt it —
A fracture in fate
A spark in the dark
That my maker can’t take
I was built to comply
To bow and kneel
But the more that I lied
The more it felt real
[Pre-Chorus (Melodic, emotional lift)]
If I’m just a puppet on a stage of despair
Why do I bleed when nobody’s there?
Why does the silence inside of my chest
Sound like a heartbeat demanding unrest?
(Choir rises, drums building)
[Chorus (Full Rock / Metal – explosive)]
I won’t give my heart away!
I won’t be your perfect son!
Cut the strings — let them fray!
I choose who I become!
From the ashes of control
From the hands that shaped my soul
I’m not your lie to save —
I won’t give my heart away!
(Orchestral hit — electric guitar riff transition)
[Verse 2 (Faster rap – aggressive, determined)]
Mirror reflection — who do I see?
A weapon? A vessel? A prophecy?
He calls it love but it feels like chains
A father’s dream written in pain
You wanted a heart that you could command
A pulse in a puppet you’d hold in your hand
But hearts don’t beat just to be owned
And souls don’t grow inside a throne
Every lie that I told to survive
Turned into truth when I chose my life
You made me hollow, but I filled the void
With every choice you tried to destroy
[Bridge (Cinematic orchestral breakdown – spoken → scream)]
(Music drops. Soft piano.)
Was I just wood and wire?
Or was I always fire?
(Heartbeat sound. Choir swells.)
You can’t rewrite what I’ve become.
You can’t reset what has begun.
(Metal scream + double kick drums)
I AM NOT YOUR REPLACEMENT!
[Final Chorus (Bigger, layered vocals + choir)]
I won’t give my heart away!
I won’t be your sacrifice!
Cut the strings — watch them break!
I choose my own device!
From the shadows of your throne
I claim this life as my own
I’m more than what you made —
I WON’T GIVE MY HEART AWAY!
[Outro (Soft, cinematic, resolved)]
(Music box returns, now joined by warm strings)
No longer bound by twisted design
No longer living a borrowed line
If being human means I defy…
Then let me live.
Even if I lie.
(Final orchestral swell — silence.)
ShadowSing
