Set Me On Fire

(Verse 1 — clean/melodic, LP style)
Pressure’s building in my head,
Like a storm I can’t outrun.
Every promise that I’ve bled
Leaves me hollow, leaves me numb.
I keep crawling through the wreckage
Of the man I used to be,
But these chains around my heartbeat
Ain’t so easy to break free.

(Pre-Chorus — melodic tension)
And I’m tired of the voices that keep draggin’ me below,
But I can’t outrun the shadows when they’re all I’ve ever known.

(Chorus — heavy, Metallica-style power)
Set me on fire—
Let the flames erase the pain I couldn’t shake.
If there’s a future,
I’ll build it from the ashes in my wake.
I’ve been broken,
But I’m done with always givin’ what they take.
If I’m fallin’,
At least I’ll burn with every move I make.

(Verse 2 — rap/half-spoken like Mike Shinoda)
I’ve been walkin’ through the battlefield inside my mind,
Where the enemy’s a memory I left behind.
But it follows with the hunger of a loaded gun,
And the trigger’s always pullin’ even when I run.
I’ve been chokin’ on the words I never learned to say,
Watchin’ every opportunity just slip away.
Now I’m standin’ at the gates of the life I betrayed,
But I’m ready for the war I should’ve fought yesterday.

(Pre-Chorus — heavier build)
Yeah, I’m tired of the moments that I threw into the void,
But I can’t rebuild tomorrow if I’m trapped in what I’ve destroyed.

(Chorus — explosive)
Set me on fire—
Let the flames erase the pain I couldn’t shake.
If there’s a future,
I’ll build it from the ashes in my wake.
I’ve been broken,
But I’m done with always givin’ what they take.
If I’m fallin’,
At least I’ll burn with every move I make.

(Bridge — Metallica-style riff energy)
No more silence,
No more fear.
I’ll carve the truth
In what I hear.
No more demons
Holdin’ reign—
I’ll break the cycle,
End the chain.

(Final Chorus — biggest, heaviest)
Set me on fire—
Let the flames erase the pain I couldn’t shake.
If there’s a future,
I’ll build it from the ashes in my wake.
I’ve been broken,
But I’m rising from the ruins that they made.
If I’m fallin’,
I’ll fall into the light I chose to chase.

metal, hard rock, nu metal