The Pole Broke

Intro – CLEAN (low, controlled | melody drops)

They said I’d end up just like him

Dead before I ever lived

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Verse 1 – SCREAM (tight, rhythmic | melody flat/low)

Bullied kid with the weight of names

Pressed in deep, engraved in shame

Every stare said I didn’t fit

Like I was wrong just breathing in

My father wore his sins in chains

Courtroom lies, cellblock pain

They said I’d rot the same damn way

Like blood decides who I become

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Pre-Chorus – CLEAN (melody rising)

You hear it long enough

It sounds like truth

Every word a loaded gun

Aimed straight at you

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Chorus – CLEAN ONLY (BIG, ANTHEMIC | melody peaks)

I tied a rope to a shower pole

Thought that was the end of me

Stepped off the edge, let the silence choke

On everything they said I’d be

But the pole broke, I hit the floor

Still breathing, still at war

If I’m alive it wasn’t chance

Something screamed not anymore

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Post-Chorus – CLEAN (short hook | melody drop)

Not

Any

More

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Verse 2 – SCREAM (faster cadence | percussive)

Tried to live like surviving was enough

Pain don’t care, it calls your bluff

Found love dressed in sharpened teeth

Stayed too long, it hollowed me

Smiles cut deep like broken glass

Slow decay behind the mask

I wasn’t bleeding where you’d see

But I was losing parts of me

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Pre-Chorus 2 – CLEAN (build with grit)

I stayed thinking I deserved it

Like love had to hurt to stay

I learned how to disappear

Just to keep the peace another day

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Chorus – CLEAN ONLY (same melody, heavier backing)

I tied my heart to broken hands

Let ‘em drag me through the dirt

Every promise pulled the trigger

Every touch just made it hurt

The pole broke, I didn’t heal

I just learned how pain feels

Didn’t die, didn’t win

Just survived the skin I’m in

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Bridge – CLEAN (half-time feel | emotional peak)

Now there’s a heartbeat on the way

And fear won’t leave my chest

What if she hears the same damn lies

That never let me rest

What if the world breaks her down

Like it tried to do to me

What if I pass this damage on

Like some sick legacy

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Breakdown – SCREAM ONLY (open space | brutal emphasis)

NO

I KNOW THAT DARKNESS

I’VE LIVED INSIDE

I KNOW DESPAIR

I KNOW ITS SHAPE

IF PAIN COMES KNOCKING

AT HER DOOR

IT’S GOING THROUGH ME

FIRST

I SWEAR

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Final Chorus – CLEAN ONLY (BIGGEST, GANG-VOCAL READY)

The pole broke but I stayed alive

Out of spite, out of rage

I bled so she won’t have to

I learned the cost, I paid the pain

If the world ever lies to her

I’ll burn it down, look it in the face

The pole broke, this ends with me

This bloodline’s finally safe

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Outro – CLEAN (soft, resolved | melody descends)

I’m not my past

I’m not that night

I’m the man who chose to fight

For love

For life

For her

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Ending Tag – SCREAM (last hit, optional)

THIS

ENDS

WITH

ME