(Verse 1)
Streetlights flicker on a dead-end road,
Cold wind whispers the hell I chose.
Footsteps haunt me, the past won’t break,
Every breath just another mistake.
Shadows crawl where the truth should stand,
Bloodstained memories stain my hands.
No escape from the debts I’ve made,
I walk alone with the choices that stayed.
(Pre-Chorus)
I hear your voice but the silence wins,
A war inside that never ends.
(Chorus)
I was a shattered bullet buried in my shame,
Fired by my own hand, yet I curse your name.
I ran from the wreckage, but it followed me still,
Every scar a reminder of my broken will.
If mercy exists beyond the pain I hide,
Why does my guilt feel so alive inside?
(Verse 2)
Your ghost lingers in shattered dreams,
Nothing’s ever as lost as it seems.
Every road pulls me back again,
To the fatal moment I can’t transcend.
Promises rot like rusted steel,
Time can’t numb what I still feel.
The truth cuts deeper every night,
A fading soul chasing fading light.
(Pre-Chorus)
No absolution left to claim,
Only echoes of my blame.
(Chorus)
I was a shattered bullet buried in my shame,
Fired by my own hand, yet I curse your name.
I ran from the wreckage, but it followed me still,
Every scar a reminder of my broken will.
If mercy exists beyond the pain I hide,
Why does my guilt feel so alive inside?
(Bridge)
If I could rewind the hands of fate,
Would I escape what I helped create?
Or am I chained to this endless fall,
A condemned soul inside these walls?
I’d trade forever for one last breath,
To steal redemption back from death.
(Breakdown)
Fractured mind, corrosion grows,
Truth is poison no one knows.
Haunted heart, no place to run,
War is lost before it’s won.
(Guitar Solo)
(Slow-build melodic lead, emotional bends, dark phrasing, harmonized guitars, rising intensity)
(Final Chorus)
I was a shattered bullet drowning in regret,
A life I can’t relive, a past I can’t forget.
No prayers left to save what I became,
Just a hollow reflection consumed by blame.
If forgiveness waits where the broken crawl,
Will I find peace — or nothing at all?
(Outro)
Streetlights fade, but the guilt remains,
A silent witness to endless pain.
No escape from the path I chose,
Just a shattered bullet no one knows.
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