Empty Jars (He Filled Us Anyway)

Dark Metal Ballad · Baritone Growl → Clean High Range)

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Intro (Sparse piano – single low notes, distant room ambience)

Empty jars…
No wine…
Still time…

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Verse 1 (Low baritone – restrained, close-mic)

The room was full of laughter
But the joy was running dry
Six stone jars stood empty
Like prayers we don’t say out loud

Mary leaned in close and whispered
“They’ve run out of wine”
You looked past the celebration
Like You were watching time

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Pre-Chorus (Baritone rises – tension building)

You said, “Woman, it’s not My moment
My hour hasn’t come”
But mercy doesn’t wait on timing
When need has already won

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Chorus (Clean vocal – wide, restrained power)

It wasn’t time
But You stayed anyway
You didn’t speak to the crowd
You didn’t call for faith

You spoke to servants in silence
Told them, “Fill it up”
Water doesn’t ask questions
When You say, “Trust Me — enough”

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Verse 2 (Baritone with grit – drums enter softly)

They filled the jars to the brim
Every drop counted out
No signs, no fire from heaven
Just obedience poured out

The master tasted the miracle
Didn’t know where it began
The best was saved for the ending
By invisible hands

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Pre-Chorus 2 (Half-growl → clean lift)

You didn’t need recognition
You didn’t need applause
Power moved through simple actions
Before anyone saw

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Chorus 2 (Full band – heavier, darker)

It wasn’t time
But You stayed anyway
You didn’t speak to the crowd
You didn’t call for faith

You spoke to servants in silence
Told them, “Fill it up”
Water doesn’t stay water
When You say, “Trust Me — enough”

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Bridge (Breakdown – growl, slow, crushing)

FILL IT.

(pause)

DRAW IT OUT.

(longer pause)

NOW WATCH.

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Bridge 2 (Clean vocal – exposed, emotional peak)

You didn’t change the water loudly
You didn’t shake the room
You changed it in the waiting
In the space between the moves

What starts as empty obedience
Ends in overflowing grace
The miracle was never rushed
But it still changed the place

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Final Chorus (Massive swell – clean high range over crushing band)

It wasn’t time
But You moved anyway
You turned the ordinary
Into something we couldn’t make

You saved the best for the ending
You rewrote what we’d lost
Water bowed to Your whisper
And became what it was not

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Outro (Instruments drop → piano + whisper)

Fill it…
Trust Me…

(final piano note rings)

Dark metal ballad, piano intro, baritone growl to clean vocals, slow build, hidden miracle, obedience turns to glory