[Intro – Clean, sparse] I remember nothing Yet memory clings to me Like frost on breathless stone Before the world learned motion [Verse I – Clean] **(Melancholic, winding)** I rose without a season No warmth, no guiding flame A murmur in the marrow of the dark Too vast to bear a name The void did not embrace me It recoiled in silent fear For I was not meant to breathe Yet here I lingered, clear [Transition – Instrumental swell] [Verse II – Growls] **(Measured, narrative)** No cradle carved my outline No prophecy was sung I crawled from fractured silence Old before I was young Not born of rage or hunger Not forged in hatred’s wake I came as consequence Of promises you’d break [Pre-Chorus – Clean → Growl overlap] When abundance loses meaning And excess blinds the eye Correction claws its way to form So everything won’t die [Chorus – Clean] **(Haunting, restrained)** They call me horror in the dark A scar across the flame But I am only absence shaped By being’s need for shame I did not choose to enter I did not wish to stay I am the echo left behind When too much finds its way [Instrumental Interlude] [Acoustic guitar, Mellotron, subtle dissonance] [Verse III – Growls] **(Deeper, resigned)** I watched the stars collapse in bloom Their dying light grew pale Each end was not a victory Just another exhale Their screams dissolved in vacuum Their faith turned into dust Yet even as I fed the dark I learned to question “must” [Bridge – Clean] **(Reflective, sorrowful)** If I had never surfaced Would peace have learned to stay? Or would creation choke itself With everything it craved? [Breakdown – Growls] **(Slow, oppressive)** You named me sin To shield yourselves From guilt you could not face You blamed the dark For what you made When light refused its place [Final Chorus – Clean + Growl harmony] I am not the hand of malice Nor the will that yearns for loss I am balance forced to speak When creation pays its cost Call me void, call me ending Call me anything you need I remain the quiet answer To your infinite greed [Outro – Clean] **(Fading, unresolved)** I linger still in shadow Not alive, not truly dead A thought the universe regrets But cannot unsay [End]
