[© 2026 Daniel Claessens] [Intro] We thought we were free… But we were feeding the fire… [Verse 1 | Pride] We built our towers to scrape the sky Named ourselves gods, forgot how to cry Voices beneath us crumble to dust Truth turns to ashes when buried in “us” While we rise higher, others shrink small One fragile ego can bury us all (We rise… we rise… we silence them all) [Pre-Chorus] And every step we take above Pushes someone deeper… deeper below [Chorus | swelling, layered vocals] Seven shadows dancing in the light Seven ways we surrender the fight We burn the world just to feel alive Then wonder why nothing can survive Every sin that we learn to justify Leaves another soul bleeding behind We’re not the victims of the fall… We are the authors of it all [Verse 2 | Greed – slightly heavier bass] Gold on our hands while our hearts petrify We take and we take while the oceans rise high Children of hunger pressed against iron gates Watching us feast while they swallow their fate Our so-called wealth is inherited despair We build our empires on borrowed air (On borrowed air… on stolen air…) [Verse 3 | Lust – sensual low bass] We trade in desire like it’s something we own Touch without soul leaves a wound in the bone Moments of fire that collapse into shame Love turns to ghosts while desire takes the blame Hearts left in pieces, unseen and unheard Reduced to a glance, a touch, a word (Trauma echoes… echoes in the night) [Bridge | half-time, darker tone, backing vocals whispers underneath] We poison their joy with comparison’s knife Hating the mirror of someone else’s life (Why do they have… why not me…) We drown in excess, consume without end While somewhere a stranger can’t even pretend (We take it all… leave nothing behind…) We light up the sky with our anger and blame Turn private pain into public flame Turn pain into war… war into a name (We burn… we burn… we burn it all down) We watch the world burn from screens in our hands Too numb to care, too broken to stand Your silence is violence dressed up as peace (We watch… we scroll… we let it all end) [Final Chorus | huge build, epic and anthemic] Seven shadows burning in the light Seven ways we give up the fight We break the world just to feel in control Then lose the fragments of our soul Every sin we’ve learned to normalize Echoes through a thousand lives We’re not blind — we refuse to see… What we became… and what we’ll be [Outro | fading backing vocals whispers] Seven ways we fall apart… All of them begin… inside the heart… (Inside the heart… inside the heart…) We were feeding the fire… Now we’re burning inside it…
