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[Intro – Hollow choir, low church organ, faint crackling fire]
🕯️ Whispers echo:
"Forgive me…"
"Forget me…"
"No, remember me like this."
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[Verse 1]
They buried my name in a song unsung,
But the echoes kept scratching at everyone’s lungs.
I carved my goodbye in a bathroom stall,
But it bled through the walls like a sermon’s fall.
You thought I vanished, a scream in the flame,
But I linger like rot underneath your name.
I haunt the mirror — not as ghost, but as grin,
I’m the echo of endings, the relapse within.
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[Pre-Chorus – faint choir harmonies under raspy vocals]
I don't regret it… but I do.
I found peace… and it’s bruised black and blue.
This quiet isn't heaven — it’s just less loud,
Where shame wears a halo, and grief draws a crowd.
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[Chorus – soaring gothic harmonies over crushing riffs]
I never left — I'm under your skin,
A twisted prayer where hell begins.
A scar that smiles, a flame that froze,
I lit the match, then held the rose.
Let the angels choke on every note,
My lullaby hangs by a noose I wrote.
This isn’t rebirth. This is regret's throne —
I died screaming… but I made it home.
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[Verse 2]
I kissed the silence like it was mine,
Wore the ashes like church clothes, broken divine.
They preach of healing — I tasted the lie,
And found more comfort in the way I die.
I built a chapel of everything wrong,
Hung my guilt from the rafters and called it a song.
Saints can’t hear me, devils won’t speak,
But this hollow is warm and the agony’s weak.
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[Pre-Chorus – whispered, breaking into harmony]
I don’t regret it… but I bleed,
In this cathedral of quiet need.
The ghosts don’t judge — they nod and sway,
They know I meant it when I walked away.
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[Chorus – full choir returns with organ stabs and distortion]
I never left — I just fell slow,
Into a peace where no light goes.
Regret holds my hand like an old friend’s ghost,
We toast with venom — and I love the dose.
Let the heavens scream, let the prophets run,
I made my bed in the heart of the sun.
This isn’t forgiveness. This is decay’s crown —
I died roaring… and I won’t lie down.
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[Bridge – soft choir fading to silence, heartbeat sound layered faintly]
You think it’s over…
You think the fire died…
But I’m still laughing…
From the other side.
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[Outro – somber piano notes, whisper-echo repeat]
"Don’t let me go."
"Let me go."
"Too late… I never left."
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