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
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