[Intro] [Solo acoustic guitar, low open C tuning, dissonant and echoing fingerpicked pattern] "Everyone remembers the lightning. Nobody remembers the quiet that comes after... when you're the only one left breathing in the room." [A slow, brooding 78 BPM acoustic rhythm begins] [Verse 1] Wire and the marrow Storm upon the roof Looking for a savior Bleeding out the proof Caught the burning lightning Sewed the tearing seam Woke up in the nightmare Hiding from the dream [Pre-Chorus] [Guitar strumming opens up, vocal gains a strained, haunted edge] I played the holy maker I held the shining spark And now I’m just a shadow Freezing in the dark [Chorus] [Full dynamic acoustic strumming, belting raspy vocal with deep anguish] I built a beating heart, but I don't have my own! I raised the dead to life, to die up here alone! I am the architect of everything I dread The monster isn't walking... the monster's in my head! Dr. Frankenstein... Left behind. [Verse 2] [Guitar drops back to eerie, sparse arpeggios, voice low and trembling] Echoes in the hallway Empty at the bone Tore the second promise Left the flesh alone Everyone I cherished Swallowed by the cold I am the creator With nothing left to hold [Pre-Chorus] [Strumming tightens with heavy bass pulses, voice climbing in intensity] I played the holy maker I held the shining spark And now I’m just a shadow Freezing in the dark [Chorus] [Maximum dynamic power, wide-open ringing chords, soaring vocal belt] I built a beating heart, but I don't have my own! I raised the dead to life, to die up here alone! I am the architect of everything I dread The monster isn't walking... the monster's in my head! Dr. Frankenstein... Left behind. [Bridge] [Tempo drags, hypnotic low drone with deliberate heavy downstrokes; vocal low and brooding before rising to an agonized peak] Chasing my own reflection... Out across the ice... I wanted the perfection... I couldn't pay the price! [Soaring, raspy vocal wail transitioning from gritty falsetto to a powerful chest roar] I gave you life! Oh God, you took mine! You took mine! [Guitar Solo] [Haunting, dissonant acoustic fingerstyle solo, aggressive bends on the high strings, lingering natural harmonics] [Chorus] [Explosive final chorus, maximum vocal grit, desperate and cathartic delivery] I built a beating heart, but I don't have my own! I raised the dead to life, to die up here alone! I am the architect of everything I dread! The monster isn't walking... the monster's in my head! Dr. Frankenstein... Left behind. [Outro] [Strumming slows down to gentle, ringing open-string harmonics, vocal hushed and breathless] Just the ice. Just the dark. Lost the spark. [Final resonant minor chord rings out and naturally fades to room silence] "God forgive me." [End]
