Dust and Echoes by Aida

(Country Trap Rock Hybrid / emotional + rhythmic) [Intro – harmonica + ambient pad, distant] (soft harmonica riff… wind… low bass rumble) Yeah… You hear that…? That’s where I come from… [Verse 1] Boots on a road that don’t lead back, dust in my lungs, yeah I breathe that… Every mile got a memory, every scar got a piece attached… Tried to bury what I been through, but it follows like a shadow does… You don’t run from a past like mine… you just learn how to carry it… [Pre-Chorus – emotional lift] I ain’t breaking… just bending with the weight… Every crack in my voice… got a story I can’t erase… [Chorus – BIG, anthem, gritty + melodic] I’m made of dust and echoes… Every step I take still lets go… Of the pain I never said out loud… Dust and echoes… Yeah, it’s all I’ve ever known… But I turned it into something now… [Verse 2 – trap rhythm creeps in stronger] Kick drum hitting like a heartbeat slow, guitar crying like it already knows… Every line that I walk is thin… but I still don’t fold… Yeah I’ve been low, I’ve been lost, I’ve been pushed too far… But I learned real quick who you really are… When the lights go out and the noise fades down… you find out what you’re made of now… [Pre-Chorus] I ain’t hiding… I just learned to survive… Every word that I sing… is the proof I’m alive… [Chorus – fuller, more power] I’m made of dust and echoes… Every step I take still lets go… Of the pain I never said out loud… Dust and echoes… Yeah, it’s all I’ve ever known… But I turned it into something now… [Bridge – stripped, harmonica + 808 pulse] No road left to run… No place I don’t know… If I fall… I fall forward… That’s the only way I go… [Final Chorus – biggest, layered grit + melody] I’m made of dust and echoes… Every breath I take still lets go… Of the weight I carried all this time… Dust and echoes… Yeah, I built this on my own… Now I hear it when I cross that line… [Outro – harmonica returns, fading] (harmonica + wind + distant bass) Yeah… Still here…