(Intro – Soft piano, low cello, ambient guitar feedback)
[Whispered]
It wasn’t the fire that broke me…
It was the silence that followed.
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(Verse 1 – Clean guitar + strings)
You left your ghost inside my chest
Now every breath feels like regret
I trace your name in shattered glass
Still hoping time can bring you back
(Pre-Chorus – Tension builds)
But every clock just screams too loud
And every crowd feels like a shroud
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(Chorus – Full band crashes in with orchestral boom)
Ashes and echoes — that’s all that remains
Your memory’s burning in every vein
I scream but you’re fading like smoke in the sky
Still chasing the pieces you left behind
I reach through the pain…
But it’s always the same…
Ashes and echoes
Calling your name
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(Verse 2 – Back to soft, but uneasy)
I walk the halls of who we were
The echoes crack beneath each word
Violins cry like I never could
And I’d bleed it all out if I thought it would
(Pre-Chorus – Layers rising)
They say the past is just a dream
But you still haunt my everything
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(Chorus – Stronger, strings slicing through distortion)
Ashes and echoes — that’s all that remains
Your shadow’s still dancing in every flame
I whisper your name through the smoke and the static
But all I get back is a silence so tragic
I reach through the pain…
But it’s always the same…
Ashes and echoes
Calling your name
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(Bridge – Orchestral spotlight, vocal breakdown)
[Choir in background, soft scream under the strings]
I built a grave from our last goodbye
But somehow, I still hear you cry
In every note, in every line…
You’re frozen in the sound of time
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(Final Chorus – Explosive and raw)
Ashes and echoes — you’re still in the air
I breathe in the loss like you’re still there
I fight to forget, but your ghost’s in my bones
And I’m screaming your name through the smoke alone
I reach through the pain…
But it’s always the same…
Ashes and echoes…
Still calling your name
(Outro – Fade with strings, piano echoes final notes)
[Faint whisper]
You never really left… did you?