No Mask No Roles

[Intro: Clean guitar, slow tempo, soft tide-like rhythm] No face No name No role to reclaim [Verse 1] He’s not here to impress Not here to perform No longer the storm— He is the sea, Still beneath the waves that form [Pre-Chorus] Unseen, unclaimed Free from the need to be named [Chorus] Let it fall— The masks, the roles, the scripted calls He walks alone, But he walks as the All [Verse 2] He has stared into the void Where the crowd would not go Where silence roars And names erode He did not run He did not pray He let the noise decay [Spoken-Word Interlude: Faint delay, layered whispers under voice] “They told him to be someone. But someone was never enough. He stepped out of the light, Into the truth— And there was no one left… Only what is.” [Bridge: Slow build with harmonies, clean vocals over distorted riffs] No more dances of fear No more echoes to hear He no longer longs He no longer waits He watches— And the world reverberates [Chorus 2] Let it fall— —Let it fall away The masks, the roles, the names we borrow —You are not what they say He stands in the hollow— —The center holds still And finds no sorrow —Only the will No more dances of fear— No more echoes to hear No more masks on skin No more "where to begin" He no longer longs He no longer waits He watches— And the world reverberates [Outro: Ambient fade, last words whispered over fading drones] The joy was always there Beneath the need Beneath the name Beneath the flame