[Intro – Staccato hi-hat, fast 808 kick, faint wind FX]
[Low, controlled]
I don’t need wings, I just move air.
Let’s push limits.
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[Verse 1 – ~9 syllables/sec, percussive consonants]
Every step like a drum in the earth when I hit,
But I move in the crowd like I barely exist,
With a grip on the weight that could snap my wrist,
And a calm in my face like it don’t mean—this.
Every heartbeat push like a freight on fire,
With the wind in my ear, every voice, every choir,
I’m the quiet in the riot when the storm reach higher,
But the truth too bright, so the mask stay wired.
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[Pre-Chorus – Slight slow-down for hook clarity]
I could split that sky,
Catch suns mid-fall,
Lift hearts so high,
It don’t weigh at all.
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[Chorus – Shouted triplet flow, anthem energy]
Rip clouds wide—open,
Sun caught—still glowin’,
Weight on—no foldin’,
Speed so—fast blowin’!
But if you saw the sky without the blue I paint each day…
Would you run? Would you stay?
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[Verse 2 – Rapid but clean, internal rhymes for flow]
Been hidin’ in plain, in the shade of the flame,
With a face so tame, but the frame’s insane,
And a pace that could race every jet in the game,
But I keep that chain on the beast, restrain.
Hear cries in the wind from a mile away,
And I’m there before echoes got time to decay,
But I play so small, keep the heat at bay,
‘Cause the crown ain’t gold, it’s a price I pay.
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[Bridge – Burst sections, ~12 syllables/sec for short runs]
Not the stars that fall I fear, it’s the ones I keep so near,
If I drop the mask right here, will the crowd still cheer, or clear?
Every breath’s a loaded gun, aim at none, still outrun
Every doubt, every dark, every weight, never done.
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[Final Chorus – Max energy, all instruments in]
Rip clouds wide—open,
Sun caught—still glowin’,
Weight on—no foldin’,
Speed so—fast blowin’!
But if you saw the sky without the blue I paint each day…
Would you run? Would you— (beat drop)
Stay?
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[Outro – Heavy breathing into wind FX, faint heartbeat fades]
Still… holdin’ it there.
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