Whispers in the Dark

[Tempo: 70 BPM]
[Key: D minor]
[Length: ~5:30]


[Intro — 8 Bars (no drums)]
[Soft piano, distant violins]

Yeah…
It don’t scream…
It whispers…
You ever notice that?



[Verse 1 — 16 Bars]
[First half no drums, then light kick/snare, soft 808]

I hear it creeping when the room go still
Like a voice in my head that just won’t be still
Says “you tired of fighting? let go, just fall”
“Ain’t nobody watching, ain’t nobody call”

Says “take what you want, you deserve that crown”
“Why you bow your head when you could stand your ground?”
Truth in disguise when it talks like that
Like a clean white lie dressed in all black

I been walking that line, thin as a thread
Peace in my chest but war in my head
One says “hold on,” one says “just take”
One builds you up, one wants you to break

Quiet at first but it grows so fast
Plants that seed and it makes it last
Watered in doubt till it starts to bleed
Turning a thought to a real dark need



[Hook — 8 Bars]
[Full drums, clean 808, wider violins]

It whispers my name when the lights go out
Says “no one will know what you’re thinking ‘bout”
Pulls at my soul like it knows my pain
Been right there through the storm and rain

“Just one step, you can turn away”
“Just one choice, you don’t gotta stay”
But I know that voice, I know that sound
It don’t lift you up—it drags you down



[Verse 2 — 16 Bars]
[Steady drums, stronger 808]

Now it’s louder, yeah I feel it close
Like a shadow that follows wherever I go
Says “look at your past, you ain’t that clean”
“Who you fooling with that ‘redeemed’?”

Cuts real deep ‘cause it knows my scars
Every weak spot, every broken part
I start seeing lies like they’re really true
Start losing grip on what I knew

Pacing floors in the dead of night
Trying to fight what I know ain’t right
But it keeps on pushing, won’t let me be
Like it feeds on fear inside of me



[Hook — 8 Bars (bigger)]



[Bridge — 8 Bars (no drums)]
[Minimal piano, single violin]

No chains on me but I feel tied down
No crown on me but I feel that crown
No fire here but I feel that heat
No one around but I hear that speech



[Verse 3 — 16 Bars (build)]
[Starts minimal → full intensity]

Then a quieter voice cuts through the sound
Not as loud but it holds me down
Says “you don’t gotta break, don’t fold like that”
“You don’t need that weight on your back”

Hard to hear when the dark gets thick
When temptation talking confident quick
Promises peace but it deals in pain
Offers control but it comes with chains

I stood there stuck at the line I drew
One wrong step and I’m slipping through
But I saw that lie for what it is
Not a gift… just a counterfeit fix



[Final Hook — 8 Bars (full)]

It whispers my name when the lights go out
But I see through the lies that it talks about
Yeah it knows my past but it don’t define
I won’t let that voice control my mind



[Outro — 8 Bars (fade)]
[Piano only]

Yeah…
It still whispers…

But I don’t listen the same…

Not anymore…

Cinematic dark rap, emotional NF style, haunting piano, violins, clean 808s, introspective, slow build, tension, reflect