Fire in My Head

[Verse 1]
Woke up in a trench in my skull
Ash on my tongue
Teeth full of shrapnel
Breath tastes like gunsmoke and rust
Every thought
Another bug in the floodlight
Crawling up walls of my gut
Sleep is a grave
I keep climbing back up
[Chorus]
There’s a war in my mind
But I won’t die here
I was thrown in the fire
Came out crystalline, clear
All the demons that I dragged through the pyre
Now they’re howling my choir
I walk out of the flames
Stronger than the pain that made me
Stronger than the pain that made me (yeah)
[Verse 2]
Shadow in the mirror said “break”
So I cracked my own halo
Turned every scar to a blade
Cut through the chains on my ankles
Fear tried to crown me in coal
I bit down, spit out the black
Danced on the edge of the void
Stared and it finally stared back
[Chorus]
There’s a war in my mind
But I won’t die here
I was thrown in the fire
Came out crystalline, clear
All the demons that I dragged through the pyre
Now they’re howling my choir
I walk out of the flames
Stronger than the pain that made me
Stronger than the pain that made me
[Breakdown]
[Drums drop to toms, synths swell]
Heartbeat hammer in my ribs (boom, boom)
Voices circle like crows overhead
I take aim at the doubt, pull the pin
Let it blow, let it burn, let it end (hey!)
[Chorus]
There’s a war in my mind
But I won’t die here
I was thrown in the fire
Came out crystalline, clear
All the demons that I dragged through the pyre
Now they’re howling my choir
I walk out of the flames
Stronger than the pain that made me
Stronger than the pain that made me (oh)
Stronger than the pain that made me

rap, Dark metal-trap hybrid, male vocals. Intro drops with distant war drums and distorted sub bass under cold synth pads. Verses ride stuttering 808s, skitter hats, and jagged detuned synth leads, vocals half-growled, half-rapped. Chorus explodes into wide guitars, melodic screams and stacked harmonies over halftime drums; breakdown strips to choir-like pads, toms, and filtered bass before final slam., metal