[Intro – distant choir, wind, slow funeral bells]
Ash falls like dying snow…
Another grave below…
Another name we’ll never say…
Another love decay…
[Verse 1 – guttural lows]
This town was built from rot and bone
Every street a mass grave stone
Fever took the young and old
Left their bodies stiff and cold
Black smoke choking out the sun
Another prayer left undone
I walked through death without a sound
Counting corpses on the ground
[Pre-Chorus – strained mid screams]
Then through the sickness, pale and weak
I saw you struggling just to breathe
Blood on your lips, skin burning white
Still you fought to stay alive
[Chorus – tragic, melodic cleans]
In a town of death and disease
You collapsed into me
Your heartbeat fading in my hands
Like slipping grains of sand
I screamed your name into the sky
Refused to let you die
Through hell itself, I swore I’d stay
And drag you out that grave
[Verse 2 – faster, more desperate]
Your body trembling in the cold
Skin like marble, turning old
Doctors fled, the priests were gone
Faith abandoned everyone
I carried you through burning rain
Every step screamed out in pain
You whispered soft, “Don’t let me go…”
I swore, “I’ll never let you go.”
[Pre-Chorus – rising panic]
Your pulse was fading in my grip
Your breath was hanging by a thread
I begged the sky, I cursed the ground
I would not lay you down
[Chorus – emotional devastation]
In a town of death and disease
You collapsed into me
Your heartbeat fading in my hands
Like slipping grains of sand
I screamed your name into the sky
Refused to say goodbye
Through hell itself, I swore I’d stay
And drag you from that grave
[Bridge – slow, tragic breakdown buildup]
(Whispered, fragile)
Your blood… on my hands…
Your breath… barely there…
(Sudden crushing drop — gutturals)
DON’T — YOU — DIE
NOT — TONIGHT
I — WON’T — LET
GO — WITHOUT — A — FIGHT
I CARRIED YOU THROUGH FLAMES AND FILTH
THROUGH EVERY SCREAM — THROUGH EVERY KILL
HELL TOOK OUR TOWN — TOOK EVERYTHING
BUT NOT YOU — NOT MY EVERYTHING
(Slower, crushing)
IF DEATH WANTS YOU — IT TAKES ME TOO
[Final Chorus – sorrowful but victorious]
In a town of death and disease
You breathed again for me
Your heartbeat thundered back to life
Like lightning in the night
Through hell we crawled, torn and bruised
With nothing left to lose
From plague and ash, from death and flame
We rose… but not the same
[Outro – soft piano, haunting choir]
Now flowers grow above their bones
Among the graves we left behind
I still wake to feel your breath
And thank the dark… you survived
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