Breath Without A Body (Eulogy)

[INTRO – ominous, crushing]
(low-tuned guitars fade in, slow feedback swell)
(sub-bass pressure builds under silence)
(distant distorted ambience, like air tearing)
(drums enter half-time, restrained)

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[VERSE 1 – CLEAN VOCALS]
I don’t recognize the face staring back at me
It moves when I move, but it’s not mine
I woke up inside a life already written
Reading lines I never designed

I learned how to smile without meaning
How to nod, how to blend, how to fade
Every choice felt borrowed
Every breath pre-paid

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[PRE-CHORUS – CLEAN → FRY EDGE]
(guitars begin to swell, tension rising)
I only feel real when it hurts
When the ache cuts through the fog
If the pain ever lets me go
Do I disappear… or rot?

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[CHORUS – CLEAN + SCREAM LAYERS]
(full band drops, wide guitars, crushing low end)

(CLEAN)
I’m breathing but I’m not alive
Just shadows keeping time

(SCREAM)
I’M A BODY WITHOUT A SOUL
JUST A PULSE IN THE STATIC NOISE

(CLEAN)
I wear my skin like a compromise
Just trying to survive

(SCREAM)
IF PAIN IS ALL THAT MAKES ME REAL
THEN TAKE IT ALL — I NEED TO FEEL

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[VERSE 2 – SCREAMED LEADS, CLEAN BACKING]
(drums push harder, guitars tighter)

(SCREAM)
I live between the mask and the mirror
Stacked lies stitched into my skin
I don’t remember who I was
Just who I’ve been pretending

(CLEAN, haunting harmony)
Pretending… pretending…

(SCREAM)
I’m scared if I stop holding together
I’ll dissolve into air
I’ve been surviving for so long
I forgot how to care

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[PRE-CHORUS – DUAL VOCALS]
(music pulls back briefly)

(CLEAN)
Silence keeps asking who I am

(SCREAM)
AND I DON’T HAVE AN ANSWER

(CLEAN)
If I let this version die

(SCREAM)
WHAT’S LEFT AFTER?

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[CHORUS – HEAVIER, MORE AGGRESSIVE]
(guitars drop lower, drums hit harder)

(CLEAN)
I’m breathing but I’m not alive
Just existing in disguise

(SCREAM)
SURVIVING ISN’T LIVING
I’M JUST WAITING TO COLLAPSE

(CLEAN)
I fade between the truth and lie
Just to keep my heart in line

(SCREAM)
I FEEL MOST REAL WHEN I’M BREAKING
WHEN THE NUMBNESS DIES

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[BREAKDOWN – FULL SCREAMS]
(tempo slows, chugging guitars, massive low end)

(SCREAM)
I DON’T KNOW WHO I’VE BECOME
I DON’T KNOW IF I EVER DID
I’M TERRIFIED OF FEELING NOTHING
BUT I’M EXHAUSTED FROM THE PAIN I’M IN

(pause — feedback swell)

(SCREAM)
BREATHING
WITHOUT
A BODY

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[BRIDGE – CLEAN, EMPTY, FLOATING]
(everything drops to ambient guitar and distant drums)

(CLEAN, vulnerable)
If I stopped pretending tomorrow
Would anyone notice the change?
Or would I finally feel alive
Without bleeding just to prove my name

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[FINAL CHORUS – CLEAN LEAD + SCREAM RESPONSE]
(full instrumentation returns, massive and emotional)

(CLEAN)
I’m breathing but I’m not alive
Still here, but barely inside

(SCREAM)
I SURVIVED EVERY VERSION OF ME
BUT I NEVER LEARNED HOW TO LIVE

(CLEAN)
I don’t want to fade to nothing
I don’t want to wear this lie

(SCREAM)
I JUST WANT TO EXIST
WITHOUT HAVING TO DIE INSIDE

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[OUTRO – COLLAPSING]
I’m still here…
I just don’t know who that is…

Atmospheric Metalcore, Alternative Metal, Post-Metal, Alt-Metal, Modern Metalcore, Atmospheric Dreamgaze, male