[Intro – whispered, fading piano / dark ambient hum]
I feel it crawling…
A shadow I can’t outrun…
The fire inside… it’s screaming…
And it’s mine.
Do you hear it too?
The echoes under your skin…
They’ve always been here…
I’ve carried them long enough…
And now they rise, every heartbeat feeding the dark.
[Verse 1 – soft, haunted, mocking tone]
I’ve walked through ash and shattered glass,
The world’s reflection sneers as I pass.
Every scar, every lie, every secret I keep,
Burrows in my soul… I cannot sleep.
A broken man with a crimson slit in his throat,
Cut here cut there Every thought a whisper, every dream remote.
The rope on the floor still hums with regret,
A memory of promises I wish I could forget.
I’ve built walls from my failures, fortified by pain,
A fortress of regret where only shadows remain.
[Pre-Chorus – building intensity]
I hear it…
The devil whispers my name…
Tells me I’m nothing…
Tells me I’m everything…
And I believe it.
I am the fault line… the crack in the floor,
The echo of every battle I’ve lost before.
[Chorus – heavier, layered, raw]
The devil cries in me,
And I don’t know why I let him stay.
Every heartbeat bleeds, every thought decays,
The devil cries in me…
And I’m too weak to walk away.
The fire is burning at my core,
My reflection cracks and shatters more.
I’ve tried to run, I’ve tried to hide,
But the shadows I carry won’t be denied.
[Verse 2 – darker, aggressive, monster imagery]
I scream into mirrors, no one answers back,
Every prayer I’ve made… just another trap.
The shadows crawl closer, they know all my sins,
Watching the war I fight within.
Floors splinter beneath my feet,
Ceiling hangs heavy with all I can’t defeat.
I claw at the walls of my mind,
Hoping someone—anyone—will find
The fragments of me I left behind.
The rope still waits in the corner’s stare,
A ghost of a choice that was almost there.
[Bridge – whispered madness, echoing chaos]
I am the storm… I am the pain…
I am the fire they tried to contain…
I am the voice you ignore…
I am the chains you can’t undo…
I am the devil… crying… in… me…
I am the screams you hear in your sleep,
The shadow that follows, never weak.
I am the weight of every sin,
The reflection of every scar within.
[Chorus 2 – heavier, almost screaming]
The devil cries in me,
And I don’t know why I let him stay.
Every heartbeat bleeds, every thought decays,
The devil cries in me…
And I’m too weak to walk away.
It gnaws inside me, consuming, alive…
The last flicker of me starts to die.
[Outro – fading piano, whispers, echo]
He’s in my chest…
He’s in my blood…
The devil cries…
And I am him.
Forever awake, forever mine…
And still… he stares back…
The fire never ends…
And neither do I.
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Masterdkassovic
