Words of my mind

INTRO – EGYPTIAN CHOIR (slow, echoing)

Aaah — oh — aaah

Eeee — aaah — oh

Aaah — aaah — aaah

(voices circle, no words yet)

VERSE 1 – ACCORDION LEADS (slow, dragging breath)

Sand in my lungs

History on my tongue

Stone gods watching me breathe

Like they already know what I’ve done

River runs red with the weight of time

Pharaoh bones under city grime

I ain’t chosen but I still survive

So I walk like a curse that won’t resign

Accordion cries like a widow at dawn

Bellows wheezing like something’s wrong

Every step I take feels borrowed

From a past that never moved on

PRE-CHORUS – LOW CHOIR HUM

Mmm — mmm — aaah

Mmm — mmm — aaah

CHORUS – HARMONICA + CHOIR (call & response)

(Harmonica wails — dry, lonely)

Waaaah — waaaah

Choir:

Aaah — we remember

Ohhh — the debt you owe

Lead:

I don’t pray for mercy

I pray they let me go

(Harmonica answers, bending notes)

Waaah — waaah

Choir (higher now):

Eeee — walk the river

Aaah — carry the load

VERSE 2 – ACCORDION RHYTHMIC, DARKER

I seen crowns turn into chains

Gold rot under the sun

Power ain’t loud — it’s patient

Like it already won

Names carved deep in the stone

All forgotten just the same

So if history eats its children

Why you surprised I came feral from pain

Accordion stutters like a failing heart

Breathing in dust, breathing in scars

I don’t fear gods that bleed like men

I fear the silence after they depart

BRIDGE – FULL EGYPTIAN CHOIR (ritual chant)

Aaah — aaah — aaah

Eeee — eeee — oh

Aaah — aaah — aaah

(Nile rises, drums faint in distance)

BREAK – HARMONICA SOLO (long, crying bends)

No words

Just breath and grief

Like the desert screaming

Through metal lungs

FINAL CHORUS – EVERYTHING COLLIDES

Choir (deep):

Ohhh — judgment walks with you

Lead:

I ain’t innocent

I’m just still true

Choir (high):

Eeee — the scales don’t lie

Lead:

Neither do I

(Harmonica cuts through like a knife)

WAAAAH

Accordion answers, faster now

All:

If I’m damned

Then damn me loud

If I’m spared

Then spare me proud

OUTRO – WHISPERED CHOIR

Aaah — remember

Ohhh — remember

Eeee — remember