[Jacob Banks – Intro / Verse 1]
Low, soul-wrenching delivery, slow chords behind him.
> I’ve been here before, I swear I’ve seen these walls…
Same cracks in the pavement, same shadows crawl.
They said death was an ending, but I’m back again,
Carrying the weight of my old sins in new skin.
[Choir echoes behind him softly:]
Back again… back again… carried by the wind…
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[Amity Affliction – Verse 2 (melodic screams + reverb guitars)]
> I bled in the fire, I drowned in the rain,
Still the circle pulls me back through the pain.
Every grave I laid in was a doorway not a wall,
And I hear the voices calling from lifetimes I can’t recall.
[Background growl / harmony:]
It never ends, it never ends, reborn in consequence.
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[Jacob Banks – Pre-Chorus]
> I was a soldier, I was a child,
I was the lost and the reconciled.
Every lifetime etches scars on my soul,
But I rise, I rise, I rise again whole.
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[Chorus – Both together, call and response]
(Jacob Banks leading)
> Ashes to echoes, dust into flame,
I live, I die, I’m born again the same.
(Amity Affliction screaming harmonies)
> Bury me, break me, I’ll breathe again!
Every death is a birth, every ending a friend!
(Both together, choir swelling)
> Ashes to echoes…
And the story never ends.
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[Bridge – Spoken / MLK-tone cadence (Jacob Banks)]
> If I must return a thousand times,
Let me return stronger.
If I must wear the faces of strangers,
Let me carry the memory of love.
Death cannot silence me—
For I am the echo that outlives the grave.
[Amity Affliction screams rising over this:]
> We are the echoes!
We are the flame!
We are the voices that cannot be chained!
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[Final Chorus – Explosive / Choir + Screams + Banks soaring]
> Ashes to echoes, fire to rain,
Tear me apart, I’ll be whole again.
(Choir) Back again, back again, risen through the pain…
(Jacob soaring)
I live, I die, I rise, I climb—
Reborn every lifetime.
[Amity Affliction outro, fading scream]
> It never ends… it never ends… it never ends…
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[Rod Wave Verse]
> I done died a thousand times in my sleep,
Woke up in another body, but the pain still deep.
Mama cried when she saw me, said my eyes the same,
But I been walkin’ through the fire just to rise from the flames.
They don’t know ’bout them nights I was fightin’ with fate,
Tryna climb out the dirt with the whole world’s weight.
If my soul gotta wander just to find some peace,
Then I’ll come back again till my hurt deceased.
[Soft hums, Rod Wave–style:]
Mmm, yeah, yeah…
Back again, back again, but I’m free this time…
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