[Instrumental Intro — clean guitar melody enters warm and almost tender, a rare moment of major-key-adjacent brightness before the album's darkness creeps back in; sparse bass underneath] [Verse 1 — clean vocal only, soft, intimate, genuinely tender; this is the calmest the narrator sounds on the whole EP] There's a fire in my chest There's a storm in my blood Every silent night it wakes Like a voice in the dust You are calm in the dark You are breath in the flame But the world in my veins Still keeps calling my name [Pre-Chorus — clean vocal, steady but a shadow creeps in; guitar begins to darken under the melody, tremolo bleeding in at the edges] You never asked for crowns You never asked for war You only held the quiet I was searching for [Chorus — dual vocal delivery: "Stay" lines sung clean and pleading; "Go" lines delivered as harsh guttural growl, controlled and rhythmic, not chaotic; instrumentation swells behind the growled lines and pulls back for the clean lines] Stay (clean, pleading) — I am human Go (guttural growl) — I am storm Stay (clean) — I am breathing Go (growl) — I transform Your hands hold my heart (clean, tender) Your voice holds the night (clean, tender) But the fire in my blood (clean, tightening) Still rises to fight (growl, brief and sharp) [Verse 2 — clean vocal returns fully, roughens slightly from Verse 1, the tenderness now strained] You see the fear in my hands You see the truth in my eyes Not the name that they whisper Not the war in the sky Every word that you say Is a rope I can't hold It slips through my fingers Like warmth through the cold [Bridge — instrumentation drops to almost nothing, just a held guitar note and distant reversed swell; vocal delivered clean and plainly, without ornament — this is the emotional center of the song, no growl here, let it breathe as pure vulnerability] If distance pulls me under Beyond the reach of you Remember love was never small It was the war I knew [Final Chorus — the growl grows heavier and more present than the first chorus, clean vocal grows more desperate in contrast; the push-pull instability finally resolves into collapse] Stay (clean, breaking) — I am ashes Go (growl, heavier than before) — I am storm Love couldn't hold me (clean) Fate carried on (growl) Stay (clean, pleading) — I am breathing Go (growl) — everything burns Your hands tried to save me (clean) But the tide never turns (growl, sustained) I was never the shelter (clean, quiet) I was always the flood (growl, low and final) Stay — I am human (clean, last plea) No — I am the storm in my blood (growl, the last word of the song) [Instrumental Outro — unlike the rest of the EP, this one doesn't cut or dissolve; the clean guitar motif from the intro returns faintly underneath the noise, buried but still there, fading out slowly, 20-30 seconds]
