Fractured Silence

 (ambient guitar + soft synth, slow heartbeat percussion)
Whispers in the dark
Echoes I can’t outrun

 (soft, almost spoken)
The walls remember
Even when I don’t
The hands I feared
The words I swallowed
All still hum beneath my skin

 (instrumental, slow build)

(quiet resolve)
I breathe
I survive
I am here

(last note lingers, a long reverb tail, setting up the next track)

Interlude for a metal album, male