[Intro — whispering layers, distant reverb]
Yeah…
It’s quiet ‘til it ain’t.
Shadows hum when the lights fade,
Echoes in the dark…
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[Hook]
Echoes in the dark, they talk in low tones,
Voices of the past carved deep into bone.
Dreams fade fast when the heart turns stone,
Still I walk alone through the places I’ve known.
Every 808 hits like a pulse gone wrong,
Every line I spit’s just a scar in song.
If peace was a place, I’ve been gone too long,
Still chasing the calm where the hurt belongs.
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[Verse 1]
Midnight plays my memories on repeat,
Every word I left unsaid lives between beats.
Got ghosts in my headphones, whisperin’ deep,
Saying, “Boy, you ain’t broke — you just too steep.”
Pressure made diamonds, but I cracked from the weight,
Still smilin’ in crowds, that’s how I hide fate.
Lost count of the prayers that never came back,
Still walkin’ that wire with pain on my back.
These walls breathe secrets, they echo my dread,
Silence so loud I can hear what I bled.
Heart skips time like a record scarred,
And my soul hums low like a busted car.
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[Hook — layered vocals, reverb swelling]
Echoes in the dark, they talk in low tones,
Voices of the past carved deep into bone.
Dreams fade fast when the heart turns stone,
Still I walk alone through the places I’ve known.
Every 808 hits like a pulse gone wrong,
Every line I spit’s just a scar in song.
If peace was a place, I’ve been gone too long,
Still chasing the calm where the hurt belongs.
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[Verse 2]
I ain’t scared of the dark, I was born in the shade,
Raised on the sound of mistakes I made.
The pain got rhythm, the fear got bass,
And my sins keep time with the tears on my face.
Heart don’t beat — it thunders in code,
Each pulse a reminder of the weight I hold.
Ain’t no peace in a world so loud,
But I found my truth when I lost that crowd.
Now I speak in tones the silence knows,
Where light don’t reach and the cold wind blows.
I don’t pray for dawn, I embrace the mark,
‘Cause I learned who I am from the echoes in the dark.
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[Bridge — vocal fade, distorted filter, 808 bend]
(In the dark they hum… in the dark they breathe…)
A thousand faces made from what I believe.
I don’t fear what I can’t see no more,
I just let the rhythm open every closed door.
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[Outro — soft piano under fading 808s]
Echoes in the dark, just me and my scars,
Talking to the quiet like it’s written in stars.
If I never make it out, at least I’ll leave this art —
Every beat’s a heartbeat,
Every rhyme’s a part.
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