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
