Taught to Speak

Intro (spoken / growled)
I don’t want peace
I want release

(low growl)
LET IT OUT

(mid scream)
LET IT OUT

(higher fry scream)
LET IT FUCKING OUT

(gang shout)
RELEASE ME

(inhale)

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Verse 1
I wake up choking on a loaded breath
Every thought a threat
Every name a debt
I don’t forgive
I remember everything
I carve the past into the backs of my teeth

Raised by fists
Fed by lies
Taught to win
Or fucking die
I don’t bend
I don’t heal
I survive
By how I feel

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Pre-Chorus
You call it anger
I call it truth
You call me broken
I call it proof

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Chorus
HATE
IS
THE
LANGUAGE
I WAS TAUGHT BEFORE I COULD SPEAK
VENGEANCE
IS
THE
PROMISE
THAT THE STRONG DEVOUR THE WEAK

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Verse 2
I don’t need hope
Hope is weak
I need a target
I need my teeth
I learned real fast
Love gets you killed
So I crowned my rage
And taught it to rule

I don’t trust gods
I don’t trust men
I don’t trust mercy
It hesitates

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Pre-Chorus
You preach restraint
I sharpen spite
You beg for calm
I choose the fight

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Chorus
HATE
IS
THE
LANGUAGE
I WAS TAUGHT BEFORE I COULD SPEAK
VENGEANCE
IS
THE
PROMISE
THAT THE STRONG DEVOUR THE WEAK

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Bridge (slammed / half-time)
I DON’T NEED HEALING
I NEED IMPACT
I DON’T NEED LOVE
I NEED IT BACK

TAKEN
STRAINED
RIPPED
AWAY
THIS IS WHAT YOU MADE

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Breakdown (open, hostile, chantable)
TEETH OUT
HANDS UP
BURN IT ALL
NO MERCY
NO GOD
NO FUCKING CALL

SPIT
BITE
STRIKE
AGAIN
I’LL DIE BEFORE I KNEEL TO THEM

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Final Chorus (gang vocals)
HATE
IS
THE
LANGUAGE
I WAS TAUGHT BEFORE I COULD SPEAK
VENGEANCE
IS
THE
PROMISE
THAT THE STRONG DEVOUR THE WEAK

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Outro (spoken → whisper → final scream)

You ask why I’m angry.

You ask what went wrong.

Like you weren’t there
When the walls were shaking.
When the doors were breaking.
When the silence felt like a loaded gun.

You built this in me.
Brick by brick.
Lie by lie.
Fist by fist.

You fed it.
You named it.
Then you blamed it on me.

(whispered underlayer)
You made me.
You made me.
You made me.

Don’t look surprised
When it answers back.

Look around.

This isn’t anger.

This is inheritance.

(silence beat)

…SPEAK.

Metalcore, male, metal, death metal