Where You Stand

[Verse 1]
Your plan crashes down to a final draw
Like a wire that bends but never breaks
Your grip still on the sharpened wood
But your arm forgets the strike to make
The tension grows thin like a labored breath
Even I don’t move an inch or more
Then from the fringe a voice arrives
Like a lock turning in a hidden door
[Pre-Chorus]
This elder fang beside us speaks
And every shadow shifts for him
We do not study hesitation
We do not linger over prey
When weakness breathes inside the night
We end it where it stays
[Chorus]
You KNOW it's TRUE — it WAKES in YOU
No ONE deCIDES the NIGHT but YOU
NOT their CODE
NOT their comMAND
your HAND decides
WHERE YOU STAND
[Verse 2]
You’ve turned soft over this hunter
Like she's something worth a name
Like the line between our blood and hers
Is thinner than the game
But every age remembers
What the younger ones forget
The moment that you stop to wait
Is when the trap gets set
[Pre-Chorus 2]
I hear the old rules in his voice
Then I answer them with mine
I savor every hesitation
I watch the moment choose its way
The night is more than what we take
Sometimes it even decides to stay
[Chorus]
You KNOW it's TRUE — it WAKES in YOU
No ONE deCIDES the NIGHT but YOU
NOT their CODE
NOT their comMAND
your HAND decides
WHERE YOU STAND
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Enough of this indulgence
Enough of watching prey
The hunt was never meant to pause
For doubt that gets its way
I move into the elder’s path
And leave no room to pass
Step aside.
[Chorus]
You KNOW it's TRUE — it WAKES in YOU
No ONE deCIDES the NIGHT but YOU
NOT their CODE
NOT their comMAND
your HAND decides
WHERE YOU STAND
[Final Chorus]
You KNOW it's TRUE — it WAKES in YOU
No ONE deCIDES your LIFE but YOU
NOT their CODE
NOT their comMAND
your HAND decides
WHERE YOU STAND
[Outro]
He lets the silence settle in
Like the hunt was never his to win
The air relaxes in the street
And I vanish before you breathe
But from outside where the light is thrown
I hear the echo of oak falling on stone
.
[Chorus]
You KNOW it's TRUE — it WAKES in YOU
No ONE deCIDES the PATH but YOU
NOT their CODE
NOT their COMMAND
your HAND decides
WHERE YOU STAND
[Chorus]
You KNOW it's TRUE — it WAKES in YOU
No ONE deCIDES your FATE but YOU
NOT their CODE
NOT their COMMAND
your HAND decides
WHERE YOU STAND
[Fade Out Repeating]
WHERE YOU STAND
WHERE YOU STAND

Gothic sleaze rock, gritty guitars, driving drums, dark glam nightclub energy, chantable hook, gothic male baritone