**[Verse 1]**
*(Close, intimate vocal — just bass, brushed snare, and tremolo guitar)*
I’ve been staring at the fire
Watching shadows climb the wall
There’s a judgment in the embers
And it’s coming like the fall
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**[Verse 2]**
*(Band creeps in — bass gets heavier, hi-hats open up)*
The scales are slowly tipping
With the weight of every sin
And the wind won’t stop its howling
Through the cracks that let it in
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**[Chorus]**
*(Full band enters with weight — driving but not rushed, 78 BPM holds steady, vocals open up)*
The wait of those left wanting
The heights from which they fell
Thundering to the ground
Finding the gates of hell
Consumed in its blaze
Scorched by the fire
Set free by the heat
Carried only skyward
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**[Instrumental Break]**
*(Tempo shifts to 92 BPM — drums lock into a tighter groove, wah-drenched guitar riff, almost Zeppelin-esque swagger)*
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**[Verse 3]**
*(92 BPM locked groove, bass-forward, vocal gets grittier)*
I’ve seen them hit the pavement
In their glory and their shame
Reaping what was given
Taking back the flame
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**[Verse 4]**
*(Building — guitars layer, drums push harder)*
Now the gathering has started
And the fire’s burning high
Like a crucible of sinners
Underneath a blackened sky
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**[Chorus]**
*(Bigger — stacked vocal harmonies, guitars wider in the mix)*
The wait of those left wanting
The heights from which they fell
Thundering to the ground
Finding the gates of hell
Consumed in its blaze
Scorched by the fire
Set free by the heat
Carried only skyward
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**[Bridge]**
*(65 BPM, half-time, spacious — Mellotron strings, reverb-washed guitar, vocal almost whispered)*
And when the ashes settle
And the smoke has cleared the sky
Will you find yourself among them
Or just standing asking why?
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**[Instrumental Build]**
*(Tension mounting — drums build from floor tom pulse to full kit, guitars feedback and swell, synths rise)*
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**[Final Verse]**
*(108 BPM — drums explode, twin guitars roar, cathartic release)*
So throw me to the fire
Let me burn until I’m clean
I’ve been running from the judgment
Now I’m ready to be seen
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**[Final Chorus]**
*(Anthemic, full-throated, everything at peak)*
The wait of those left wanting
The heights from which they fell
Thundering to the ground
Finding the gates of hell
Consumed in its blaze
Scorched by the fire
Set free by the heat
Carried only skyward
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**[Outro]**
*(Return to 78 BPM — stripped to tremolo guitar and synth drone, vocal fades to a whisper)*
Scorched in fire
Scorched in fire
*(Hold on drone, fade to silence)*
Nexus
