07 - Drown It Black

[Verse 1 | clean guitar, eastern-tinged melody, haunted clean vocal] I see the light begin to fade, Colors bleeding into gray. Shadows stretch across my mind, Like graves of all I left behind. Every heartbeat feels like stone, Every road leads me alone. I reach for something I can’t touch— A world that used to be enough. [Pre-Chorus | tension building, rising pressure] If I can’t kill this pain inside, Then let the daylight die. [Chorus | full distortion, fast tempo, screams + cleans] So drown it black, erase the dawn, Let every trace of color be gone. I don’t want red, I don’t want white— Turn the whole world into night. If I can’t bring the dead ones back, Then let it all burn, drown it black. [Verse 2 | heavier riffing, tremolo-picked eastern lead, rising aggression] Faces pass like broken glass, Fragments of a shattered past. I hear laughter from the days Before my heart was set ablaze. But joy feels like a foreign tongue, A song I knew when I was young. Now silence is my only prayer, And grief the cross I always wear. [Pre-Chorus | screamed layering, escalating intensity] If peace won’t fill this hollow chest, Then darkness, do the rest. [Chorus | more aggressive, double kicks, layered screams + cleans] So drown it black, erase the dawn, Let every trace of color be gone. I don’t want red, I don’t want white— Turn the whole world into night. If I can’t bring the lost ones back, Then let it all burn, drown it black. [Bridge | slow doom-like atmosphere, sparse tension, dark clean vocal] No flowers on these graves, No prayers for the saved. Just empty skies and rain Washing out the stains. And if the sun should rise— I’ll tear it from the skies. [Breakdown | crushing chugs, gutturals, blunt rhythmic punches] Black the seas, black the air, Black the hope we used to share. Black the love, black the light, Black the pulse of fading life. [Final Chorus | orchestral lift, soaring cleans + screams, cinematic climax] Drown it black, erase the dawn, Let every final color be gone. I don’t want red, I don’t want white— Drown it in eternal night. If I can’t bring the dead ones back, Then let it all go— Drown it black. [Outro | soft clean guitar, final ringing note] All I see is black.