Redactions in Gold

Name: Redactions in Gold
Duration: 334 s
ChucklesMcnerd
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Prompt / Lyrics
(Intro (spoken, filtered / glitch FX))

Names in the margins
Ink dissolving in light
Every answer filed under
“Not tonight”

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(Verse 1 (angular, syncopated))

Paper ghosts in velvet halls
Footsteps echo, no one calls
Witness rooms with painted smiles
Justice frozen in the files

Signal buried, circuits stall
Quiet deals behind the wall
Truth arrives in fractured frames
Everyone forgets the names

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(Pre-Chorus (tight rhythmic phrasing))

Clock keeps ticking
Hands don’t move
Weight of silence
Left to prove

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(Chorus (melodic but jagged, polyrhythmic overlay))

Open the ledger
Break the seal
If truth is buried
Make it real

Locked in the archive
Cold and still
Power protects
What conscience kills

Open the ledger
Let it show
Who pulled the strings
And let it go

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(Verse 2 (more chaotic phrasing / shifting meter))

Headlines flicker, fade to grey
Outrage rented by the day
Golden doors and borrowed grace
Memory erased without a trace

Questions spiral, answers thin
Curtains fall before we begin
Justice framed as distant art
Truth disassembled part by part

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(Pre-Chorus 2)

Time keeps folding
Pressure grows
Everyone knows
No one knows

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(Chorus (expanded))

Open the ledger
Break the seal
If truth is buried
Make it real

Names in shadows
Glass and steel
Power protects
What truth reveals

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(Bridge (atmospheric, floaty over instrumental))

Whispers through the corridors
Keys that never fit the doors
Promises of someday light
Filed away with every night

History hums a quiet plea
What you ignore will never leave

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(Breakdown (minimal, percussive chant))

Redact
Delay
Deflect
Erase

Redact
Delay
Deflect
Replace

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(Final Chorus (arena but dissonant))

Open the ledger
Let it bleed
Justice buried
Feeds the need

When the silence
Finally cracks
Truth remembers
What we lack

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(Outro (spoken / fading))

Some doors open outward
Some are sealed from within
But silence
Is never innocent