Black Lion

Tempo: 140 BPM

Key: G Major

Structure: Intro / V1 / Pre / Chorus / V2 / Pre / Chorus / Breakdown / Bridge / V3 / Final Chorus / Outro

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Intro (spoken – 4 bars, ambient pad + clean guitar)

Leadership isn’t about being the strongest in the room.

It’s about standing when no one else can.

They don’t need perfection. They need someone who won’t quit.

Someone who carries the weight, no matter the cost.

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Verse 1 (8 bars)

Steel in his bones, weight in his chest

Every command is a test

Eyes on him when the fire breaks loose

He don’t get the right to choose

Lost parts, scars that remain

Still stands tall through the pain

They see strength but they don’t know

What it takes just to hold control

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Pre-Chorus (4 bars)

He don’t run, he don’t fold

Even when the night gets cold

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Chorus (8 bars)

I am the Black Lion, carry the flame

Buried in pressure, forged in the pain

I take the hits so they don’t fall

I stand first, I take it all

No fear left, no disguise

Just the fire behind my eyes

If I break they’re on their own

So I rise, I hold the throne

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Verse 2 (8 bars)

Boots in the dirt, weight on my name

Different battlefield, same flame

They look to me when it all goes wrong

So I stay steady, I stay strong

Train them hard so they stand alone

Long after I’m gone they’ll hold their own

Every lesson, every scar I give

Is how I make sure my people live

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Pre-Chorus (4 bars)

Every burden, every scar

Built a leader, made him hard

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Chorus (8 bars)

(repeat)

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Breakdown (4 bars – drums + bass)

I don’t break, I don’t bend

Not for fear, not for the end

They depend on what I lead

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Bridge (6 bars)

I see the fire in your eyes

Same anger, same fight inside

You don’t know it yet but you will

What it takes, what it will build

When I’m gone you take the lead

Be the man they’re gonna need

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Verse 3 – Keith (8 bars)

You carried more than I could see

Now that weight’s in front of me

Every scar you tried to hide

Now I feel it burn inside

I was lost, I ran away

Didn’t know I’d have to stay

Now I lead where you once stood

I’ll become what you knew I could

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Final Chorus (8 bars)

I am the Black Lion, hear me now

I don’t break, I don’t bow

Through the dark, through the strain

I will carry all the pain

For my team, for my name

I will walk through any flame

Even if I stand alone

I rise, I hold the throne

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Outro (spoken – 2 bars, fade out)

A leader doesn’t create followers.

He creates the next one to stand.