Against the Ending

[Verse 1]
You said
“Grow up
This is how it is”
Paycheck chains
Coffee in the dark
Bite your tongue till it starts to twist
Call it peace
Call it playing your part
But I’ve got pages I never signed
Scars that spell out “still alive”
You call it losing
I call it time
To drag this dead-weight dream outside
[Chorus]
I’m against the ending
I won’t fade to quiet gray
If the sky keeps bending
I’ll be screaming out its shape
You can throw your stones
I’ll build a throne from what you break
I’m against the ending
Watch me rewrite how I escape
[Verse 2]
You roll your eyes at my shaking hands
Say the world won’t shift for one small voice
But every crack in your perfect plans
Is a place I press and make a choice
So light the doubt like a funeral pyre
I’ll walk through
Drag my fears behind
Turn that smoke to a battle cry
Sing it raw ‘til it rewires my mind (hey!)
[Chorus]
I’m against the ending
I won’t fade to quiet gray
If the sky keeps bending
I’ll be screaming out its shape
You can throw your stones
I’ll build a throne from what you break
I’m against the ending
Watch me rewrite how I escape
[Bridge]
[Drums drop to toms
Strings rise under a single strained vocal]
If this is all I ever get
Let it hurt
Let it hit
Let it burn through my chest
If this is all I ever am
Let me stand
Bloody hands
On the edge of the mess
(Oh-oh) I’m not your tragedy
(Oh-oh) I’m my own legacy
(Oh-oh) carve it into me
“I would not bow”
[Chorus]
I’m against the ending
I won’t fade to quiet gray
If the sky keeps bending
I’ll be screaming out its shape
You can throw your stones
I’ll build a throne from what you break
I’m against the ending
(Against the ending, against the ending)
Watch me rewrite how I escape

rock, Anthemic emo-rock meets 2000s stadium drama; male vocals pushed upfront with stacked gang shouts in the hook. Double-time punk drums under wide, fuzzed-out guitars; pre-chorus pulls back to toms and tremolo strings, then everything explodes on the chorus. Orchestral strings swell in the bridge over halftime groove before a final key-lift chorus with extra octave vocal and cymbal wash., emo, emotional, punk, soaring, orchestral