[INTRO | DRIVING GUITAR | 8 SECONDS] [VERSE 1] Bloodied and bruised but not broken, She puts words to thoughts yet unspoken. [BREAKDOWN] (building intensity) Screaming out with no sound, staring forward, [PAUSE] Locking eyes with the evil keeping us blind, Each step through the fire, her skin grows thicker, But the weight on her soul grows that much quicker. [BUILD-UP] [BEAT] [CHORUS] Taking bullets for those who've been Beat-Ten, Her resolve to step up never Weak-Ens. While inside her true self has Re-Treat-Ed, No safe place for the warrior who needs it. Her scars tell a story she's too tired to write, A battle-worn soul searching for light. [BEAT] [VERSE 2] Standing for those cast aside and for-Gott-en, Fighting a system that upholds the Rott-en. Her village, her armor, but also her reason, The haven she needs when her spirit is Beat-Ten, She cries out but finds what she couldn't have known, [HALF-TIME FEEL] That village has vanished the fool stands alone-----! [BEAT] [PAUSE] [CHORUS] Taking bullets for those who've been Beat-Ten, Her resolve to step up never Weak-Ens. While inside her true self has Re-Treat-Ed, No safe place for the warrior who needs it. Her spirit bends but refuses to break, Even as trust crumbles and her soul starts to ache. [BEAT] [BRIDGE] Her senses can't be trusted, and she's reeling, Still fighting battles for others while she's healing. [HALF-TIME FEEL] Trust once blind now can see, And she thought she'd be free, But she found ties that bind are deceiving. [BEAT] Each tear she sheds feels like a prayer, Begging for justice in a world unfair. Still she stands, and she fights not for what she can gain, Her cause is her prison, her freedoms her chain. For all those she shields, even as they cast stones, She bears their weight, though she's left alone. [BUILD-UP] [BEAT] [VERSE 3] No respite where her heart can stop bleeding, Standing alone, being for others what she is needing. Surrounded by flames, smoke obscuring the light, She builds in the burning and walks toward the fight. Each bridge she crafts burns her hands as it grows, But her purpose remains, though the agony shows. [BUILD-UP] [BEAT] [OUTRO | REVERB TAIL | SILENCE] The loss she feared is the flame that refines her, All that was, burned to ashes behind her, She embodies her armor, and she knows her reason, [PAUSE] [BREAKDOWN] She screams out — it resounds, (belted) her voice now emboldened, [BREAKDOWN] Forged in the fire, she emerges— [OUTRO | REVERB TAIL | SILENCE] (spoken word) unbroken. [HARD STOP] [END]
