(Screamo/Folk) (Acoustic guitar strums a simple, mournful G-C-Em-D progression. The vocal is a hushed, weary sigh.) (Verse 1 )(Folk - Weary, Low Vocals) (G)Sunlight on a dusty floor, another morning (C)just like the one before. And I'm already (Em)bleeding out, from wounds you (D)know nothing about. A hundred quiet (G)wars I've fought, in trenches (C)dug inside my thought. I’m barely (Em)holding up the wall, I have no (D)strength to watch it fall. (The acoustic guitar stops abruptly. Electric guitar feedback swells, and the tempo shifts to a frantic double-time beat.) Chorus (Screamo - Full-throated, Desperate Scream) (G)WHY AM I STANDING (C)ON THIS BURNING STAGE?! (Em)I DIDN'T LIGHT THE (D)MATCH! I DIDN'T TURN THE (G)PAGE! (G)YOU THROW THE SHADOWS (C)AND YOU CALL IT ME! (Em)THE FALSE FLAG OF (D)PEACE YOU'VE PLANTED CRUSHES ME! I AM NOT (G)GUILTY! (C)I AM NOT THE (Em)FIRE! (D)I AM JUST EXHAUSTED! (Verse 2) (Folk - Faster Tempo, Urgent Vocals over clean electric guitar arpeggios) (Am)You see the smoke, you (Em)name the source, you never (G)check the wind's cruel (D)course. (Am)My silence is taken (Em)as my guilt, a fragile (G)house you're sworn to (D)tilt. You think I crave this (G)new dark fight? That I (C)have the energy for spite? I'm walking (Em)on a broken glass, just trying (D)to make this morning pass. (Drum fill—snare and cymbal crash. The music drops out except for a single, distorted bass note.) (Bridge) (Screamo - Rhythmic, Punctuated Screams, Building Intensity) (Slow, heavy rhythm kicks in. Vocals are a harsh, rhythmic shout.) (N.C.)Tell me! Look me in the eye! (N.C.)Tell me why I would lie! (N.C.)I'm fighting a ghost! (N.C.)I'm fighting a fear! (N.C.)I AM ALREADY DROWNING! (N.C.)WHY WOULD I SWIM TO SHORE JUST TO JUMP BACK IN?! (Music explodes back into the frantic Chorus tempo.) (Chorus) (Screamo - Full-throated, Desperate Scream) (G)WHY AM I STANDING (C)ON THIS BURNING STAGE?! (Em)I DIDN'T LIGHT THE (D)MATCH! I DIDN'T TURN THE (G)PAGE! (G)YOU THROW THE SHADOWS (C)AND YOU CALL IT ME! (Em)THE FALSE FLAG OF (D)PEACE YOU'VE PLANTED CRUSHES ME! I AM NOT (G)GUILTY! (C)I AM NOT THE (Em)FIRE! (D)I AM JUST EXHAUSTED! (Outro) (Folk/Post-Rock - Music Decrescendos, Vocals Return to a Broken Whisper) (The distorted music fades into just a clean electric guitar picking a lonely, repeating motif. The voice is weak, almost breathy.) (Am)The weight you put on (Em)me, it’s not just blame... (G)It's the added (D)battle... the shame. (Am)I can't lift my (Em)hands to fight you... (G)I need them (D)to hold myself together. (The music slows, becoming sparse—just the acoustic guitar returns to the opening progression. The final word is a strained whisper over a long, resonating acoustic chord.) (G)...together. (C - Strummed once, letting the chord ring and slowly fade to silence.)
