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?

Rock, acoustic. Sad powerful