🎵 Title: Keiko – No More Time [Verse 1] Found in a room with four beside, No food, no water, nowhere to hide. Early February, the door gave way, Listed as stray on the fourth that day. [Verse 2] Just skin and bone at forty-four, A hungry body that begged for more. Five of us there, now I’m alone, Each taken away, each fate unknown. [Pre-Chorus] I wasn’t always this afraid, I once knew kindness, gentle shade. Soft were my days, the world was wide, Before I learned to hide inside. [Chorus] I’m still right here, I want to live, With all the love I have to give. There’s no more time—please hear my plea, Please choose a life… please choose me. [Verse 3] They wrote my name, they scanned my fear, A number now that brought me here. Cold steel walls and endless cries, Too many sounds, too many eyes. [Verse 4] Behind these bars I learned to shake, At every sound, at every break. The lights stay on, the noise won’t cease, No quiet moment, no safe peace. [Pre-Chorus] I tried to trust each reaching hand, To understand, to calmly stand. But trembling grew where calm had been, A storm kept building deep within. [Chorus] I’m still right here, I want to live, With all the love I have to give. There’s no more time—please hear my plea, Please choose a life… please choose me. [Verse 5] Day after day, the pressure grew, No space to breathe, no world I knew. My heart would race, I couldn’t rest, A constant pounding in my chest. [Verse 6] I bit the bars, I couldn’t flee, Just fear and panic inside of me. Not out of anger, not to fight, Just trying to escape the fright. [Pre-Chorus] They marked it down—behavior, risk, A note, a line, a checked-off list. They do not see what I went through, Or how this place has changed me too. [Chorus] I’m still right here, I want to live, With all the love I have to give. There’s no more time—please hear my plea, Please choose a life… please choose me. [Bridge – soft, emotional] They say I’m not the dog I was, They never ask the reasons why. Fear is something they can’t see, But it’s what this place has made of me. Four years alive, I want to be, More than a line in history. Not mean, not broken, not born this way, Just shaped by all I faced each day. [Final Chorus – big, with choir] I’m still right here, I want to live, With all the love I have to give. There’s no more time—don’t turn from me, Please choose a life… please choose me. [Outro – soft piano] No more time… the moments fade, A life like mine so easily erased. If you can hear me, let it be— No more time… please choose me.
