[Intro – low voice, one acoustic strum, distant flames crackling]
You remember when I begged,
“Just let me go…”
Then I turned around and said,
“Don’t let me go.”
And when no one answered,
I whispered,
“I let me go.”
Now I’m here...
and I deserve the fire.
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[Verse 1]
You ever stare at your own reflection
and see the devil grinning back?
I wore every mask I could find
but the rot still bled through the cracks.
I said I wanted peace,
but I left a war behind in every soul that touched me.
They lit candles.
I lit bridges.
They prayed.
I disappeared.
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[Chorus – screamed or chanted]
Don’t let me go—
Let me burn.
I made this coffin,
I lit this urn.
No more tears, no last goodbye,
Just smoke and ash and reasons why.
Don’t put me out—
let me feel it all.
Every word I said,
every time I let them fall.
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[Verse 2 – slower, more pained]
In Part I, I wanted to vanish.
In Part II, I wanted a reason.
In Part III, I gave up trying.
Now in Part IV,
I’m finally being honest.
I hurt people who loved me.
I pushed away every hand.
Now the heat on my skin
feels more like justice than damnation.
I said I wanted the pain to end—
but maybe pain was all I was ever meant for.
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[Bridge – raw vocal break, no instruments]
Don’t sing for me.
Don’t forgive me.
Don’t find my note and say it was the world that failed me.
It was me.
It was always me.
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[Final Chorus – half-spoken, half-screamed, unfiltered]
Don’t let me go—
let me scream.
Let me feel what I did to every dream.
The blood, the lies, the hollow shell,
Let me drag it all through this private hell.
Don’t let me go—
keep me in this flame,
I don’t want peace.
I want the blame.
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[Outro – whispered, nearly silent]
No heaven.
No hell.
Just this.
Just me.
Still burning.
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