Echoes in my teeth

Intro (Clean guitar, distant ambience)

I was small when I learned to stay quiet

Big shadows, loud hands

Every word felt like a verdict

Verse 1 (Muted riff, tense)

I learned the floorboards better than your eyes

Counted steps like prayers at night

Your voice was a weapon dressed as truth

“Man up,” you said, as I learned to bruise

Hands like weather—never knew the storm

Promises snapped like brittle bones

You called it “discipline,” I called it fear

Still hear you when the room is clear

Pre-Chorus (Build)

I swallowed words till my jaw locked tight

Turned my anger into a place to hide

You don’t remember, but I do

Every mark you left me grew

Chorus (Explosive metal)

I WAS A KID, NOT YOUR PUNCHING BAG

NOT YOUR FAILURE, NOT YOUR DAD

I GREW UP BLEEDING BETWEEN THE LINES

TRYING TO SURVIVE WHAT YOU LEFT INSIDE

YOUR VOICE STILL LIVES IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD

TEACHING ME HOW TO HATE MYSELF INSTEAD

Verse 2 (Faster, aggressive)

I wore your rage like hand-me-downs

Stitched in shame, passed around

Every mirror learned your tone

Every “almost” felt like home

I flinch at love, I brace for war

Still wait for fists behind closed doors

You’re gone but you never left

You just changed shape inside my chest

Rap Bridge (Beat drops, Linkin Park energy)

Yeah—

I was eight years old tryna read the room

Heart beating fast like it knew what you’d do

Every insult carved a permanent groove

Now my inner voice talks just like you

I don’t trust praise, I expect the hit

I overwork just to feel legit

You taught me pain before you taught me strength

Now I measure love by how much it takes

Therapy words don’t erase the past

But I’m learning how to breathe through the cracks

I’m not your echo, I’m not your son

I’m the man you couldn’t become

Breakdown (Half-time, brutal)

You don’t get to ask me why I’m cold

When you taught me silence before control

Chorus (Bigger, layered screams + cleans)

I WAS A KID, I WAS INNOCENT

YOU WERE THE ONE WHO CROSSED THE LINE

I’M STILL UNLEARNING WHAT YOU SAID

STILL PULLING YOU OUT OF MY MIND

THIS PAIN FOLLOWED ME INTO MY NAME

BUT IT ENDS WITH ME—I BREAK THE CHAIN

Outro (Quiet, then heavy resolve)

I survived the hands

I survived the words

I survived becoming what I was afraid of

(Last hit)

This ends with me.