[Intro — a cappella, breathy and close-mic’d]
(yeah… breathe…)
Time slows down when you stop tryin’ to fight it
Every fear I’ve known just turned to quiet
If this is how the story ends, I’ll write it
With a steady hand, not hidin’ from the silence
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(lo-fi guitar enters — faint static, low bass hum)
[Verse 1]
I used to shake at the thought of the end
Now I just smile when it crosses my head
Ain’t no monster waitin’ under my bed
Just the peace I never had when I lived instead
(soft echo: when I lived instead…)
Used to run from the dark like it had my name
Now I walk through the quiet, it don’t feel the same
If this breath’s my last, let it fall where it may
There’s beauty in the fade, in the drift away
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[Pre-Chorus — falsetto cracks]
I used to beg for one more day (one more day)
Now I’m okay if it slips away (slips away)
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[Chorus — melodic rap tone]
No fear anymore, I let it go slow
Every soul gotta leave, that’s all I know
If my eyes close tonight, don’t cry, just glow
(yeah, just glow…)
No fear anymore, I made my peace
With the quiet between each heartbeat
If this is all we get, then I’m finally free
(finally free, yeah…)
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[Verse 2 — low and honest]
I watched friends fade, I watched love decay
But the hurt still taught me what words can’t say
We’re all ghosts hummin’ songs in the space between
What we were, what we’ll be, what we’ve never seen
(soft backing: never seen…)
Ain’t a tomb, it’s a doorway wide
To the place where the noise finally dies inside
No halo, no light, no need to pretend
Just silence and peace at the very end
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[Bridge — spoken/half-sung]
(breathe out…)
If I go before I wake,
Tell the world it’s okay,
I ain’t lost, I just changed shape.
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[Final Chorus — cracked falsetto with layered harmonies]
No fear anymore, I let it go slow
Every soul gotta leave, that’s all I know
If my eyes close tonight, don’t cry, just glow
(just glow, just glow…)
No fear anymore, I made my peace
With the quiet between each heartbeat
If this is all we get, then I’m finally free
(finally free… yeah… finally free…)
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[Outro — fading whisper]
It’s not the end… it’s the rest of me.
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