(Verse 1)
Found a key where the shadows sleep,
Buried down where the silence keeps.
A rusted truth beneath the stone,
Unlocking ghosts I’ve always known.
A hidden level of forbidden signs,
Secrets waiting beyond all time.
Rising slow from the underground,
To drag forgotten demons out.
(Pre-Chorus)
And when the darkness hit the light,
It didn’t run, it chose to fight.
What was hidden behind my face,
Was pain I never could erase.
(Chorus)
Now the lock breaks open wide,
And reveals the man I hide.
A broken soul with weathered scars,
Still counting wounds beneath the stars.
They raised a boy to wear two skins,
To smile through hurt and bury sins.
Taught to be the “good bad son,”
To carry shadows, never run.
(Verse 2)
A child told strength meant holding pain,
Stand in storms and dance in rain.
Act like fire, don’t let them know,
The heart beneath could still be soft.
But inside lived a heart diseased,
Not with cancer flesh can see.
But a sickness built from lonely years,
Fed by silence, fed by fears.
Life carved trenches through my soul,
Took small pieces, left me cold.
Yet every scar still whispers low:
“You had too much heart to let it go.”
(Bridge)
Maybe darkness wasn’t born in me,
Maybe darkness was all I’d seen.
And every devil I became,
Was just survival wearing chains.
(Final Chorus)
Now the key has turned at last,
And every secret from my past
Climbs from ashes into view,
To tell the world what pain can do.
A broken man with tired eyes,
Still carrying a child inside.
The boy they thought the dark had won…
Still had a heart beneath the gun.
(Outro)
Found a key where the shadows sleep…
Turns out the lock… was always me.
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