# ONLY THE BAD [Intro – Distant Vocal / Piano] I kept the light beneath my tongue Afraid of what it might become The room went white The shadows laughed And somehow I remembered only the bad [Verse 1] There was a door inside the wall It knew my name before the fall I turned the key with shaking hands And woke beneath a foreign sky Mercy wore a borrowed face And left no fingerprints to trace I held the truth against my chest Until it learned to lie [Pre-Chorus] Every beautiful thing disappears When I look through the glass of my fear Every memory bends where it cracked And leaves me with— [Chorus] Only the bad Only the wounds that never closed Only the words that turned to ghosts Only the black beneath the gold Coming back Only the bad I lose the heaven that we had But every nightmare stays intact Why does my heart remember that? Only the bad [Verse 2] I built a cathedral in my lungs For all the hymns I never sung The saints were made of silent wires Their haloes flickered when I prayed I watched the summer freeze to stone While every kindness left me cold There was a hand reaching through the dark But I was staring at the blade [Pre-Chorus] Every beautiful thing disappears When I look through the glass of my fear Every colour fades into black And leaves me with— [Chorus] Only the bad Only the wounds that never closed Only the words that turned to ghosts Only the black beneath the gold Coming back Only the bad I lose the heaven that we had But every nightmare stays intact Why does my heart remember that? Only the bad [Breakdown – Exposed Piano / Soft Vocal] Maybe I was never haunted Maybe I just fed the dark Gave it every empty hallway Gave it every broken part Maybe there were hands that held me Maybe there was more than pain But the mind becomes a mirror That reflects the deepest stain [Bridge] (Instruments drop back to a haunting but melodic synth dreamwave with reverb guitars) So tear the curtains from the windows Let the morning see the mess Let the truth come in uninvited Let it find me undressed I am more than what has hurt me More than ashes, more than scars I will gather every lost light And remember what we are [Final Chorus – Full Band / Choir] Not only the bad Not only the wounds that never closed Not only the words that turned to ghosts There was still fire beneath the cold Calling me back Not only the bad I won’t erase the life we had I’ll let the beautiful stay intact My heart can learn to give it back Not only the bad [Final Chorus – Higher Harmony] Not only the bad Not only the nights that swallowed me There were a thousand things I couldn’t see Still alive inside the wreckage Still reaching back Not only the bad I hear the silence start to crack I feel the colour flooding back I won’t remember only that Not only the bad [Outro – Piano / Fading Vocal] The room goes quiet The shadows pass And for the first time I remember more than the bad
