℗ Copyright 2025 by Midknightoil Music, All rights reserved. ☢ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 🧶 - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3RHtX1sMkxhBIXBxdqftsK 📻 - YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/channel/UCuW6er98D210fb6pIcp9jpA 🍎 - Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/midknightoil-music/1771715875 ✖ - X Artist: https://x.com/Midknightoil_M 📽 - TikTok Artist: https://www.tiktok.com/@midknightoil 📸 - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/midknightoil_music/ 🎧 - Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/artists/B0DJCJXCL2/midknightoil-music 💜 - Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/us/artist/284428631 🌐 - Website: https://www.thrownexception.com Author Notes: Soul Confession is a ritual of redemption, forged in the anguish of spiritual exile and the desperate plea for divine mercy. It fuses guttural rage with fragile falsettos, embodying the tension between torment and transcendence in its pursuit of entry into the heavens. [Intro] In the hollow of my chest, a void resounds. A cacophony of silences, where shadows writhe and twist. Every breath a grievous weight, every heartbeat a dirge. I’m lost, in the labyrinth of my own remorse. [Hook] Mercy, mercy, Tear these chains away. I bleed, I burn, but I still stay! [Verse 1] Fractured prayers scatter like autumn leaves. As I stumble through the desolate landscape of my soul. The heavens have withdrawn, leaving me to writhe! In this arid wilderness, where every step feels like betrayal. [Pre-Chorus] I’m crawling on my knees. Through the dust and the grime. A supplicant, a penitent, a soul in exile’s crime. I’m reaching for the void, where mercy sleeps. Ahh, ember flickering, about to seep. [Chorus] Oh, liberate me from this iron cage! Unshackle my heart, let the darkness engage. I’m yearning to ascend, transcend this wretched state. Reborn, redeemed, in the radiance of your gaze (your gaze) Chains are breaking, shadows fall away. I rise! I rage! I reclaim the day. [Verse 2] My voice is a rusty gate, creaking in the wind. A mournful serenade, echoing through my mind. I’m a specter haunting ruins of my past. Forever trapped, where love and hope collapse. [Pre-Chorus] I’m crawling on my knees, through the dust and the grime. A supplicant, a penitent, a soul in exile’s crime. I’m reaching for the void, where mercy sleeps. Ahh, ember flickering, about to seep. [Chorus: falsetto soaring with guttural backing, orchestral strings, trap bass drops, mood transcendent and desperate] Oh, liberate me from this iron cage! Unshackle my heart... let the darkness engage! I’m yearning to ascend... transcend this wretched state! Reborn, redeemed, in the radiance of your gaze (your gaze) Chains are breaking... shadows fall away. I rise! I rage! I reclaim the day! [Bridge] I’ll claw my way through wreckage, I’ll shatter the chains! I’ll scream defiance, I’ll scatter remains! This forsaken existence, this desolate land. I’ll rise! I’ll rage! I’ll reclaim my stand! [Chorus] Oh, liberate me from this iron cage! Unshackle my heart, let the darkness engage. I’m yearning to ascend, transcend this wretched state. Reborn, redeemed, in the radiance of your gaze. [fade to end]
