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.