Standing in the Void

VERSE 1 (Clean – restrained, dark)

I wake to silence screaming back

A war inside my mind

Every mirror’s cracking glass

No peace to try and find

I drag my sins in heavy chains

They follow where I go

A shadow carved from broken days

I never asked to know

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PRE-CHORUS (Clean – rising tension)

The voices say I’m cursed to fail

A fracture I can’t outrun

That I’ll become the damage done

Before the damage comes

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CHORUS (Clean – BIG, melodic, anthemic)

I’m standing in the void tonight

But I refuse to fade

I’ve danced with death, I’ve lost the fight

Still I won’t be erased

You don’t own my soul

You don’t claim my name

I won’t pass this hell

Down my bloodline’s veins

I’m standing in the void tonight

Still breathing through the pain

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VERSE 2 (Clean – more personal, emotional)

I learned to live with clenched fists

In houses filled with doubt

I watched a man just drift away

Never hear him shout

Now fear tells me I’m next in line

To disappear the same

To leave behind a broken home

And pass along the blame

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PRE-CHORUS 2 (Clean – stronger resolve)

But I won’t vanish in her eyes

I won’t become the past

I’ll be the one who stays behind

When every shadow asks

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CHORUS (Repeat – heavier instrumentation)

I’m standing in the void tonight

But I refuse to fade

I’ve danced with death, I’ve lost the fight

Still I won’t be erased

You don’t own my soul

You don’t claim my name

I won’t pass this hell

Down my bloodline’s veins

I’m standing in the void tonight

Still breathing through the pain

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BRIDGE (Harsh / Half-scream – aggressive, breakdown feel)

I feel it crawling under my skin

The doubt, the rot, the fear within

A thousand times I almost quit

But hear my heart — it won’t submit

I’ll bleed before I walk away

I’ll burn before I turn to gray

If I’m damned, then let me fight

I won’t become the night

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FINAL CHORUS (Clean – biggest, emotional peak)

I’m standing in the void tonight

But I refuse to fade

I’ll build a fire in her name

From every scar I’ve made

I’ll be the man I needed then

The proof that pain can bend

I’m standing in the void tonight

But this is not the end

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OUTRO (Clean – slow, haunting)

The dark still calls

But I remain

I am not lost

I break the chain