### **"Gates Open (One Last Hold)"**
*(Alternative Rock / Post-Hardcore Influence – 3:30min)*
#### **[Verse 1]** *(Clean guitar, haunting vocals)*
*"The light’s pulling, shadows break…*
*Whispers say, ‘It’s not too late.’*
*Heaven’s got a place for me,*
*But my heart’s still earthbound, violently..."*
#### **[Pre-Chorus]** *(Drums kick in, bass rumbles)*
*"I wore my sins like a crown of thorns,*
*But grace don’t care if you’re bruised or torn—*
*Yeah, love’s the only law I’ve ever known…"*
#### **[Chorus]** *(Explosive, anthemic)*
**"BUT BEFORE I GO—**
*LET ME HOLD HER ONE LAST TIME!*
*(Whoa-oh-oh!)*
*Flesh and memory, tangled divine,*
*Even God can’t take her outta my mind!*
**JENNY, I’M YOURS—**
*In this life or the great beyond!"*
#### **[Verse 2]** *(Driving rhythm, grittier vocals)*
*"Judgment rains, but love’s the flood,*
*Washes clean the stains of blood.*
*I see the gates swing wide and low,*
*But I’m still chained to the ghost below…"*
#### **[Bridge]** *(Half-time, sludge-heavy riff)*
*"I HEAR THE CHOIR—BUT IT’S NOT ENOUGH!*
*(One more heartbeat, one more touch!)*
*THE SKY CAN WAIT—*
*JENNY, SCREAM MY NAME LIKE YOU MISS ME TOO MUCH!"*
#### **[BREAKDOWN]** *(Screamed, chaotic)*
*"I DON’T WANNA GO YET!*
*(Let the devil recognize my debt!)*
*GOD CAN TAKE MY SOUL—*
*BUT HE’LL NEVER MAKE ME FORGET!"*
#### **[Final Chorus]** *(Soaring, desperate)*
*"Yeah, the gates are open wide…*
*But Jenny—**hold me till I die.***
*Heaven’s choir can’t drown you out,*
*Your name’s the one I’ll scream into the clouds!"*
#### **[Outro]** *(Fading, broken)*
*(Clean guitar, whispered)*
*"I love her…*
*I love her…*
*Even when the light takes me under…"*
*(Feedback swells, then silence.)*
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Hedgereaper
