[INTRO – piano + low strings, sub, breath fx, no drums, female air] [Atmos – pads, distant choir, ney, erhu] I kept my voice beneath the flood I wore the quiet like a crown Every shadow learned my blood Every echo pulled me down I traced the outline of escape It vanished in my hands Like structures built of smoke Like unfinished plans I memorized the weight of stillness How silence fills the bone How long a night can stretch When you are left alone If life was ever coming It turned away somehow --- [BUILD – add pulse, tension] [Cinematic – risers, booms, sub hits, guzheng, brass] If there was light it never stayed It shimmered past my skin A promise heaven almost made But would not let me in I pressed my ear against the dark I heard the future start A rhythm far but forming Like a borrowed heart Something in the air was shifting Though nothing moved at all Like gravity preparing To finally lose its hold --- [PRE-CHORUS] [Symphonic – strings, brass, choir, santur] [Vocals – lilt, light scoop] I am still the spark inside the ruin Still the signal in the vein Every second near the breaking Every fracture speaks my name [Crescendo] If there is a door it must be opening If there is a line it must be thin Something buried in the silence Is returning from within --- [CHORUS 1 – controlled power] [Hybrid – orchestra + guitars, taiko, uilleann pipes] [Vocals – scoop, echo bloom] Until I live again [Harmony – octave] [Crescendo] I’m reaching through the glass Until I live again I’m learning how to last Hold me in the space between The fall and when I mend I am almost breathing [Decrescendo] Until I live again Almost in the open Almost in the wind Almost past the ending Where the living begin [Echo – begin] --- [DROP] [Vocals exposed – rap forward, minimal backing, oud textures] I counted days like they were debts Heart negotiating air Mirrors asking who I was Answers never there But something underneath the floor Began to rearrange Like endings losing argument Like fate had changed The locks inside my history The weight inside my chest Every no grew fragile Under pressure from a yes [Harmony – low 5th] --- [LIFT] [Symphonic – choir, brass, bayan] Blood returning to the fire Motion in the frame If this is what becoming is Remember why I came [Crescendo] I was never meant for vanishing Never built to fade I am every broken future Refusing to behave --- [PRE-CHORUS 2 – bigger] [Hybrid – heavier drums, fiddle, bodhrán] [Vocals – lilt, scoop] I am more than what they buried More than what the night became Every pulse rewriting Every breath recalls my name [Crescendo] Feel the current in the marrow Feel the threshold hum There is something waking Where there once was none [Crescendo] --- [CHORUS 2 – stronger] [Hybrid – add doubles, balalaika, war drums] [Vocals – scoop, echo bloom] Until I live again [Harmony – 3rd] [Crescendo] The walls are growing thin Until I live again I feel it entering Pull me from the almost From the edge where I suspend I am done with fading [Harmony – low 5th] Until I live again Now the air is answering Now the doors respond Now the weight is lifting Now the dark is gone [Crescendo] [Echo – gone] --- [BRIDGE] [Vocals exposed] [Atmos – low pads, dizi] [Vocals – whisper, fragile, echo] If I open up my eyes Will the world survive me If I step into the light Will it recognize me [Decrescendo] If I let the moment take me If I cross the line Do I lose the ghost I carried Or finally become mine I am shaking at the doorway Balanced in the flame Half of me a memory Half of me a name [Decrescendo] If I stay I disappear If I move I begin [Breath] --- [IMPACT] [Impact – hit, sub, rise, brass stab] --- [FINAL CHORUS – everything] [Full – all layers, choirs, brass, taiko, santur, pipes] [Vocals – belt, octave double, echo bloom] Until I live again [Harmony – octave + 3rd] [Crescendo] No grave can hold my name [Harmony – unison] Until I live again I am the rising flame [Harmony – 3rd] [Crescendo] Watch me cross the threshold Watch the impossible bend [Echo – bend] I was always waiting Until I live again Hear the sky unfolding Hear the engines sing Every chain is breaking Everything is spring I am not the silence I am what it said [Decrescendo] --- [OUTRO] [Orchestral – piano, strings, choir, ney, erhu] [Vocals – airy, lilt, long echo] Until I live again [Echo – again] Until I live again Higher, further, open Until I live again I am not the ending I am what begins [Harmony – octave] [Echo – begins] Until I live again…
