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.