[Intro, Groove-Locked Rhythm Guitar Enters Immediately, Lead Guitar Answers the First Riff Like a Second Voice] [Verse 1, Aggressive Barked Vocal, Short Phrases with Space for the Lead Guitar to Answer Each Line] Your labyrinth, designed, unmerited, This body you've confined, inherited, You called me blameless, forsaken, You called me nameless, mistaken. I had a name before your hiding, Asterion, before this maze's biding. [Chorus, Full Band, First Pass, Guitar Answers Every Line] LABYRINTH OF SHAME Built from a father's guilt, unspoken, unclaimed, Built from a mother's curse, unbroken, unnamed, LABYRINTH OF SHAME Was never mine to bear, never mine to blame. [Verse 2, Same Barked Vocal, Groove Pocket Tightening] I pace these tunnels, wandering, echoing, I trace these shadows, squandering, beckoning. They come to gawk, shivering, at my hunger, They never stop, delivering more anger. I stopped asking why you locked me away, I started counting debts you'll someday repay. [Chorus, Same Words, Same Guitar Answers] LABYRINTH OF SHAME Built from a father's guilt, unspoken, unclaimed, Built from a mother's curse, unbroken, unnamed, LABYRINTH OF SHAME Was never mine to bear, never mine to blame. [Bridge, Hushed, Stripped to Clean Guitar and Vocal, Vulnerability Breaking Through the Aggression] "Did you ever hold me, before the shame began?" "Did you ever call me son, before you called me less than man?" The only answer left is silence, and this maze. [Instrumental, Lead Guitar Takes Full Voice, Extended Call-and-Response Solo Answering Itself, Building Back to Full Weight] [Verse 3, After the Instrumental, Full Band Returns at Peak Weight, Vocal Hits Hardest Here] I feel a thread, arriving, unwinding, I feel a blade, deciding, unbinding. I won't surrender the shape of my ending, I'll make you remember the name you were bending. Let the hero come, let the ending be spoken, I'll die with the name that was never broken. [Final Chorus, One Word Moves] LABYRINTH OF BLAME Built from a father's guilt, unspoken, unclaimed, Built from a mother's curse, unbroken, unnamed, LABYRINTH OF BLAME Never mine to bear, only mine to reclaim. [Outro, Guitar Cuts to a Single Ringing Note, Vocal Drops to Almost Nothing] (barely audible, spoken) "Asterion. That's what she used to call me. Before."
