[No Intro – vocals enter immediately over a low pulse] [Verse 1 – extremely close, restrained] Red light crawls across the floor The city buckles underneath Every screen says save yourself You put your shaking hand in mine And ask me where I plan to run As if there’s still another side [Pre-Chorus – pressure rising] Don’t turn around to watch me stay Just take the road I couldn’t make [Chorus – vast but controlled] I’ll hold the dark, you take the light Run until you can’t hear me When the power dies and the gate comes down I’ll be the space between you and the night Don’t spend your breath, don’t say my name Just let me know you got away I’ll hold the dark, you take the light And live enough for both of us tonight [Verse 2 – pulse intensifies, vocal remains intimate] Steel bends inward at the gate Daylight disappears in smoke Every second costs us ground And the road will carry one Maybe courage isn’t loud Maybe love is simply this: Keeping one door open Long enough for you to live [Pre-Chorus – arrangement nearly disappears] I won’t make this beautiful Go before I change my mind [Chorus – greater weight, no key change] I’ll hold the dark, you take the light Run until you can’t hear me When the power dies and the gate comes down I’ll be the space between you and the night Don’t spend your breath, don’t say my name Just let me know you got away I’ll hold the dark, you take the light And live enough for both of us tonight [Bridge – exposed voice, almost no instrumentation] When they ask you why I stayed Don’t tell them I wasn’t afraid Tell them I was terrified I just needed you alive [Final Chorus – maximum scale, controlled vocal] I held the dark, you took the light You ran until you couldn’t hear me When the power died and the gate came down I was the space between you and the night No final speech, no grand goodbye Just one small life that bought you time I held the dark, you took the light Now live enough for both of us tonight [Outro – everything cuts away] I held the dark. [Hard Stop]
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