Altar Of My Own Bleeding

(INTRO)

(Ethereal pads swell slowly)

(Distant choir breathing, low-pass filtered)

(Sub-bass rumble like a distant tide)

(Sparse piano notes echo in reverb)

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(Ambient, breathy delivery)

I learned your name like a hymn on my tongue

Every syllable tasted like hope undone

I bowed my head to the shape of your hands

Praying to something that wouldn’t stand

I knelt in rooms where the light never stayed

Called it devotion, called it faith

I gave you my voice, let it hollow my chest

Sang myself empty just to feel blessed

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(Choir layers rise softly)

(Heartbeat-style kick fades in)

I believed without mercy

I stayed when I should’ve run

I thought pain was proof

That I was chosen by love

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(Low-tuned guitars bloom, open chords)

(Sub-bass swells underneath)

I worshipped what wounded me

Built my altar from broken knees

Faith without mercy carved into skin

If this is holy, let me cave in

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(POST-CHORUS)

(Instrumental breath)

(Delay tails stretch, cymbals shimmer)

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(Polyrhythmic djent groove begins quietly)

Soft skin, but a spine of steel

I learned to smile while I learned to bleed

Pain was the teacher, never the cure

Lessons etched deep, but no comfort here

I became someone I don’t recognize

Just to survive under your sky

I shed my name like a scar that healed wrong

Left pieces of me in every song

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(Drums tighten, syncopated rhythm)

(Guitars mute and pulse)

I gave you everything

And still it wasn’t enough

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(Full djent assault)

(Guttural vocals enter)

KNEELING FOR WHAT NEVER SAVED ME

BITING MY TONGUE, CALLING IT GRACE

FALSE GODS WEAR FAMILIAR FACES

I PRAYED — AND STILL I BROKE

(Choked scream)

I BLED FOR BELIEF

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(DROP OUT)

(Everything cuts except sub-bass and breath)

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(Reverb-heavy clean vocals)

Learning to breathe after the damage

One shallow breath at a time

I don’t need your heaven

I just need what’s mine

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(Choir + guitars + full drums)

(Clean vocals lead, screams underneath)

I worshipped what wounded me

But I won’t kneel again

If love is a religion

I’m rewriting the end

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(OUTRO)

(Choir fades into a single sustained note)

(Pads dissolve into silence)

(Last breath audible)