What I’ve Done For Love

[Verse 1]
All these stained hands
Smell of smoke and cheap regret
Every promise that I broke
Keeps me up
Keeps me up
Keeps me wet with sweat
I carved my name
In the people that I left behind
Every scar that wears my face
Is another way I crossed the line
[Pre-Chorus]
If I kneel here in the wreckage
Will You even look my way?
Or am I screaming at the ceiling
Of an empty
Endless grave?
[Chorus]
What I’ve done for love
Tore the halos from the ones I held
What I’ve done for love
Turned my heart into a dying bell
Can You hear me
God?
Or am I howling at a silent sky above?
Scream and cry
“Grace!”
Over everything I’ve done for love
[Verse 2]
I preached Your name
With a tongue that tasted rust
Said I’d die to do Your will
But I only learned to kill my trust
I used Your words
Like a chain around her throat
Said it’s holy
Said it’s right
While I tightened every twisted quote
[Pre-Chorus]
If I burn down my excuses
Lay my weapons in the dust
Will You tear apart this distance
Or just watch me choke on trust?
[Chorus]
What I’ve done for love
Left her crying in a stranger’s bed
What I’ve done for love
Put a bullet in the faith we said
Can You hear me
God?
Or am I begging at a locked-up heaven’s door?
Scream and cry
“Grace!”
Till my broken lungs can’t scream no more
[Bridge]
[Music drops
Organ and soft choir hum]
(CHOIR) Mercy
Mercy
I don’t deserve these open arms
(LEAD) I cursed Your quiet in the dark
(CHOIR) Mercy
Mercy
Weigh my rage against Your heart
(LEAD) I tore Your name apart
[Build]
[Drums roll in
Guitars swell]
I am the thief
I am the liar
I am the nails
I am the fire (hey!)
Why were You silent
While I drowned in what I chose?
Were You weeping in the corner
As I broke the ones I loved the most?
[Chorus]
What I’ve done for love
Is a cross I strapped to someone else
What I’ve done for love
Is a prison I once called myself
Can You hear me
God?
Or did I bury You beneath my shame?
Scream and cry
“Grace!”
Till Your mercy is the only name
[Final Chorus]
(CHOIR) What You’ve done is love
Over ashes You still breathe a song
(LEAD) What I’ve done for love
Doesn’t get the final word for long
(CHOIR) We are crying
“God!”
Let Your river flood this desert soul
(LEAD) I will scream and cry
“Grace!”
(CHOIR) Grace
(ALL) Until grace is all I hold
[Outro]
[Band cuts; lone choir voice
Soft]
Scream and cry
“Grace…”
Over everything I’ve done for love

metal, Slow-burning heavy metal ballad with male vocals and a full gospel choir; clean, reverb-soaked guitars in the verses, swelling organ pads, then crushing, down-tuned distorted guitars and tom-heavy drums when the choir enters. Vocals move from fragile whispers to throat-shredding screams, with call-and-response between lead and choir. Huge, echoing snare, choir stacked in tense harmonies, final chorus exploding into a wailing, feedback-drenched climax before a sudden, bare a cappella tag., ballad, soul, gospel, wrestling