🎵 “More Than Dust” | (Response to To Dust I Will Return)

🎵 “More Than Dust” — Poet (The Contralto Seraph) (Grounded Metal · Philosophical Hard Rock · Post-Grunge Weight) [Tempo: 92 BPM Key: D Minor Tone: Defiant · Grounded · Resolute · Unyielding] 🎼 LYRICS [VERSE 1] I was raised on endings written In the marrow of the bone Every breath a quiet warning— You were never meant to own I have watched the towers crumble Watched the righteous fall apart Seen the truth beneath the surface— There is dust inside the heart [PRE-CHORUS] You can dress it up in meaning You can call it fate or sin But it’s always there beneath you— Where you end is where you’ve been [CHORUS] Yeah, I feel it in the air I breathe A weight I can’t outrun Every second moving closer To the breaking of the sum But I won’t bow to the ending Like it’s all I ever was— Yeah, I came from something buried… But I’m more than dust More than dust [VERSE 2] You can carve your name in granite You can swear it will remain But the wind forgets in silence And the stone erodes the same Still there’s something in the fracture Something no decay can claim Not a god, and not forever— But it burns without a name [PRE-CHORUS] You can feel it when it finds you In the stillness you avoid It’s the part they never measured— It’s the edge of every void [CHORUS] Yeah, I feel it in the air I breathe A weight I can’t outrun Every second moving closer To the breaking of the sum But I won’t bow to the ending Like it’s all I ever was— Yeah, I came from something buried… But I’m more than dust [BRIDGE — Instrumental Drop, Sparse Guitar + Bass Pulse] (Half-time feel, minimal chords—space between hits) [SPOKEN BREAK — Low, controlled, almost whispered] If this is all there is— Then why does it resist the dark? Why does something in me Refuse… to disappear? [FINAL CHORUS — Slightly thicker instrumentation] Yeah, I feel it in the air I breathe The end inside my lungs But there’s something still unbroken When the final line is sung I won’t bow to the conclusion Like it’s all I ever was— You can bury what I’m made of… But I’m more than dust [OUTRO — Full Band, Final Hit] MORE. THAN. DUST. (Hard stop — absolute silence)