[INTRO — Whisper] I heard a voice beneath my skin, soft as a secret, sharp as sin. [Whisper] Come closer... [SFX: reverse breath] [VERSE 1 — Low Chest] I learned to live behind a face that never showed what I had chased. I called my silence discipline, and locked the restless world within. But underneath that quiet floor, something kept asking for the door. [PRE-CHORUS — Breathy] Round and round, the circle turns, old wounds glow where darkness burns. I hear it now. I feel it now. [SFX: heartbeat toms, rising metal resonance] [CHORUS — Low/Mid] There was no stranger in the mirror, no other hand, no hidden skin. I kept calling her a shadow, when she was always living in. I didn't lose myself tonight— I opened the door within. There was no stranger in the mirror. [INSTRUMENTAL — Oud / Bendir / Distorted Bass] [VERSE 2 — Intimate] I buried every word I meant, turned every wound into a rule. I built a home inside the cage and called its walls the safest place. Then something broke behind my eyes— not the woman, but the disguise. [PRE-CHORUS — Rising] Don't close the door. Don't kill the flame. If I meet the dark, I'll give it my name. [SFX: rising metal resonance] [CHORUS — Stronger] There was no stranger in the mirror, no other hand, no hidden skin. I kept calling her a shadow, when she was always living in. I didn't lose myself tonight— I opened the door within. There was no stranger in the mirror. [BREAKDOWN — Bare] [Drums cut] [Sub drone only] [SFX: dry inhale] I was never afraid of the dark... [Pause] I was afraid of what I'd become in it. [Pause] [Whisper] Then become it. [EGYPTIAN RAP — Dry] أنا مش هرجع لورا، أنا عارفة أنا مين. كل خوف خبّيته جوايا كان بيناديني من سنين. كل باب قفلته بإيدي كان بيفتح باب جوايا. دلوقتي مش بهرب منّي— أنا بمشي معايا. [BUILD — Spoken] Breathe. Break. Rise. Again. [Drums: double-time] [Guitar: distant feedback] [BREATHLESS CRESCENDO — Full Chest] No more hiding. No more disguise. No more shrinking to survive. [SFX: reverse swell] I was the voice beneath the floor. I was the hand behind the door. I was the thing I couldn't name— and now I wear my name. [FINAL CHORUS — Massive Low/Mid] There was no stranger in the mirror. There was never anyone else. Every shadow I was fighting was another part of myself. I didn't lose myself— I found all of me. [LOW RITUAL CHOIR — Same Female Voice] All of me. All of me. All of me. [FINAL IMPACT] [Down-tuned guitars, massive controlled sub, industrial drums] [SFX: metal impact, feedback tail] [Pause] [OUTRO — Single Whisper] I didn't become someone else. I became all of me. [SFX: distant oud, three notes] [Long breath] [Pause]
