[INTRO — distant choir, low sub-bass, nearly whispered female vocal] I know you're there. Don't pretend you're not. I've felt you standing at the edge of every room, a shadow wearing silence, a hand that never reaches. You've watched me break a thousand different ways. So tell me, Death— Why won't you take me? --- [VERSE 1 — fragile, exhausted female vocal] I've walked beside your river with my feet already wet, I've whispered through the darkness, "I am ready. Not yet?" Not yet. Always not yet. I wake beneath the morning with the same old borrowed breath, another day stitched tightly to the body I can't leave. And you are there. Watching. Patient as a grave. You have gathered kings from golden beds, children from their mothers' arms, taken lovers in their kisses, taken soldiers from the storm. So why am I the one you cannot carry home? --- [PRE-CHORUS — strings rising, bass beginning to pulse] If this is love, then tell me what it means— To love somebody so deeply you condemn them to their grief. --- [CHORUS — FULL CHOIR, MASSIVE DUBSTEP DROP] TAKE MY SOUL! Don't leave me here beneath the weight of it! TAKE MY SOUL! Heaven or hell— I don't give a damn where it goes! Let the angels turn away, let the devils bar the gate, let eternity decide what becomes of what remains. TAKE MY SOUL! You've taken millions before. Why won't you take mine? --- [VERSE 2 — quieter, wounded] Perhaps you love the suffering. Perhaps that's why you stay. You watch me crawl through midnight just to see me face the day. Is this your cruel devotion? Is misery your kiss? Do you call it love when you refuse to let me rest? You never speak. You never answer. Just that silhouette behind the glass— A patient god of endings watching something rot. --- [PRE-CHORUS — vocal gaining anger] Or maybe you adore me because I never cease to hurt. Maybe keeping me alive is how you make me yours. Then listen carefully, Death— I am your possession.... --- [CHORUS — choir, heavier and more distorted] TAKE MY SOUL! Don't make me beg for what you give away! TAKE MY SOUL! Don't call this mercy while you make me stay! You've harvested the old, you've harvested the young, you've closed a million stories when their final pages came. So what makes mine so precious? What makes me worth this pain? TAKE MY SOUL! Or is my suffering the thing you came to save? --- [BRIDGE — beat nearly disappears; lone piano, trembling vocal] I'm angry with you. Do you hear me? I'm angry. You could end the waiting. You could close the door. You have done it since the first frightened creature looked into the dark and gave it a name. You know how. You always knew how. So why— Why keep watching me? --- [BUILD — whispered choir fragments, heartbeat bass] Is it love? Is it hunger? Is it pity? Is it vanity? Or do you simply want to see how much a soul can lose before it stops calling itself alive? --- [FINAL CHORUS — enormous choir, operatic female lead, crushing slow drop] THEN TAKE ME! Not because I love you. Not because I want you. Not because you owe me some beautiful escape. Take me because the world is crowded with souls still waiting for a dawn. Take me because there is only so much room beneath the sky. Maybe someone else could use this place. Maybe someone else could breathe the air I cannot bear. Maybe stepping aside is the only gift I have left to give. So open your hands. Stop watching. Stop loving me like this. TAKE MY SOUL. Let heaven judge it. Let hell devour it. Let nothing wait for it. I don't care. Just let me go. --- [OUTRO — everything collapses to silence; distant choir] I know you're there. I know you're listening. And if there is anything left in you that still resembles mercy— Please... [whisper] Please... [softer] Please...
