Should I keep fighting?

Alarm in the dark.

Body moves on command.

Another day wearing

A face that can stand.

No cracks in the surface.

No sign of the strain.

Just swallowing thunder

And calling it “okay.”

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Pre-Chorus (snare building)

It would be easy

To drop the weight.

Easy to stop

Negotiating fate.

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Chorus (FULL BAND — distorted guitars, driving drums)

Should I keep fighting

When the fight’s all I know?

When the dark feels honest

And the daylight’s for show?

Should I keep fighting

Through the noise in my head?

When it whispers so softly

“You’d be better off dead.”

But I see their faces —

And I can’t let go.

So the heart keeps swinging

Even moving slow.

Should I keep fighting?

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Verse 2 (drop to acoustic but heavier picking)

Focus collapses.

Thoughts misfire.

Every small task

Feels wired to a wire.

Laugh in the right place.

Say the right line.

Carry the weight

Like it isn’t mine.

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Pre-Chorus (harder, louder)

The night says “rest.”

The night says “peace.”

The night says “you don’t have to keep

Doing this.”

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Chorus (bigger — backing vocals shout the hook)

Should I keep fighting

When I’m running on empty?

When the air feels thinner

And the silence tempts me?

Should I keep breathing

For birthdays and calls?

For the sound of their voices

If this body falls?

The thought of their breaking

Breaks me more.

So I stand in the fire

At the door.

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Bridge (strip back — acoustic + raw vocal)

Not brave.

Not strong.

Just scared

Of being wrong.

Scared of the silence

Left behind.

Scared of the echo

In their minds.

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Final Chorus (half-time, huge — guitars ring out)

Should I keep fighting?

Maybe just tonight.

Not for glory.

Not for light.

Just because love

Outweighs the fall.

So the lungs pull air

Through it all.

Should I keep fighting?