[Title: All of You] [Artist: Whispering Pirate Vendetta] [Hardcore chest-beating love song, battle-drum tempo, gang-shout hooks, raw male lead, half-prayer half-warning, heavy guitars, floor-tom heartbeat, breakdown built for fists on chest] [Intro — low spoken over feedback and heartbeat drums] Don’t run away just to kill the dark when the dark is still a part of you [Drums hit] [Verse 1] You keep lookin’ for a fire escape From a room inside your ribs You keep callin’ every shadow proof That love don’t get to live But pain can wear a prophet’s mask And fear can sound like truth Those voices know your weakest door But they don’t know all of you [Pre-Chorus] So if you run don’t ask the dark why your feet are movin’ Ask someone who loves you before you call that losin’ [Chorus — gang shouts under lead] Don’t run away to kill the darkness That darkness is a part of you Don’t throw your heart into the furnace Just because it’s bruised I love you That’s not gonna stop I love all of you The broke, the brave, the scarred, the lost I love you That’s not gonna stop I’m still right here and I know what this costs [Verse 2] I’m not sayin’ this is easy I’m not dressin’ fear in gold I’m not actin’ like your damage ain’t a heavy thing to hold If I say I’ll do the work then I better know my name Better know what I am askin’ Better know I’ll stay the same That’s a lot to bite down on That’s a war inside the jaw And I’m not here to eat more time from all the time we lost [Pre-Chorus] So if you run don’t ask the dark if the dark was right to flee Ask the hands still reachin’ Ask the eyes still beggin’ you to see [Chorus — bigger, chest-hit rhythm] Don’t run away to kill the darkness That darkness is a part of you Don’t throw your heart into the furnace Just because it’s bruised I love you That’s not gonna stop I love all of you The broke, the brave, the scarred, the lost I love you That’s not gonna stop I’m still right here and I know what this costs [Post-Chorus — gang vocal] All of you All of you Not the pretty half All of you All of you All of you Not the easy half All of you [Verse 3 — lower, more intimate, drums stalking] I know “willing” ain’t a word you say soft and walk away It means blood under the fingernails It means truth in open day It means I don’t get to promise what my bones won’t carry through It means if I say forever I better mean it past the wound So hear me clear above the noise above the panic and the ghosts I’m not tryin’ to own your breath I’m tryin’ to bring you home [Bridge — half-time, crowd-ready] Ask somebody living Ask somebody whole Ask somebody standing outside that burning hole Ask somebody breathing Ask somebody real Ask somebody loving you how much fear can steal Not the voices in the basement Not the knives behind your eyes Not the old pain dressed as wisdom Not the ghosts that call it pride [Breakdown — screamed lead, gang shouts answer] If you must run— RUN TO LIGHT! If you must fight— FIGHT FOR LIFE! If you must break— BREAK THE LIE! But don’t kill you to survive! If you must run— RUN TO LIGHT! If you must fight— FIGHT FOR LIFE! If you must break— BREAK THE LIE! But don’t kill you to survive! [Final Chorus — huge, melodic hardcore lift] Don’t run away to kill the darkness That darkness is a part of you Don’t throw your heart into the furnace Just because it’s bruised I love you That’s not gonna stop I love all of you The broke, the brave, the scarred, the lost I love you That’s not gonna stop I’m still right here and I know what this costs [Outro — gang vocals fading into feedback] All of you All of you I love all of you All of you All of you That’s not gonna stop [Spoken, exhausted but certain] I’m not trying to eat more time that’s lost. I’m trying to stop losing what’s still alive.
