Intro
(Tape hiss. Wind through empty streets. A distant train horn.)
Everything I knew…
is smaller than I remember.
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Verse 1
Same cracked sidewalks, same dead signs
Same old lies I memorized
Every face just passing through
Like they already forgot you
Gas station lights at 2 AM
Flicker like they don’t understand
Why I’m still standing in the rain
Trying to break away
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Pre-Chorus
And I swear I can feel it pulling
Like the ground won’t let me go
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Chorus (slow, heavy, stretched out)
I’m leaving this town behind…
Slow like a wound that won’t close right
Every street feels like a chain
Wrapped around my name
I’m leaving this town behind…
Even if it tears me open wide
I can’t stay buried in the dust
Of everything I was
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Verse 2
Old friends turned into faded names
Carved into forgotten frames
Every promise that we made
Got swallowed by the same old days
There’s nothing here that’s left for me
Just ghosts in cheap memories
And every road I didn’t take
Still calls me out my name
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Pre-Chorus
And I know they’ll say I changed
Like that’s something I should hate
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Chorus (slow, heavier, more space between lines)
I’m leaving this town behind…
Slow like a wound that won’t close right
Every street feels like a chain
Wrapped around my name
I’m leaving this town behind…
Even if it burns out my mind
I can’t stay buried in the dust
Of everything I was
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Bridge (half-time, minimal drums, heavy bass, emotional restraint)
Maybe I’ll miss the silence
Maybe I’ll miss the pain
But I can’t keep living
Inside the same mistakes
If I turn around now
I know I’ll stay
So I keep walking
Anyway
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Final Chorus (slow, huge, echoing, almost collapsing)
I’m leaving this town behind…
Let it fade out line by line
Every street feels like a chain
But I’m breaking it in time
I’m leaving this town behind…
Even if it takes everything I find
I can’t stay buried in the dust
Of everything I was
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Outro
(Tape slows. Wind grows louder. Footsteps fade away.)
Everything I knew…
is smaller than I remember.
False_Memory
