(Intro – whisper, intimate, almost too close) Don’t look away… You were there… when they sealed my mouth… (faint layered whispers) You remember… You just buried it deeper than me… (Verse 1 – low, raw growl, slow and vivid) They stitched my name into the back of my tongue So every word would taste like blood when sung I chewed through silence till my teeth turned to dust Spat out a god… that was shaped like my trust (pause — breath) I saw your face… in the marrow they drained A mirror of something that wanted me chained (sudden piercing falsetto shriek) YOU HELD THE HAMMER — DON’T SAY YOU FORGOT! (drop to guttural growl) I remember… every strike… (Pre-Chorus – rising, layered, unstable) I swallowed the dark till it learned how to breathe… It moved in my chest… it was listening… Every forgotten prayer carved into bone… Was never erased — just waiting below… (Chorus – explosive, operatic, disturbing hook) I DRANK THE VOID — AND IT SPOKE MY NAME! (AAAAH—AAAH—AAAH!) NOT AS A KING — BUT THE WOUND THAT REMAINS! I AM THE SCAR THAT REFUSED TO CLOSE! I AM THE TRUTH… THAT YOUR SILENCE WROTE! (deep growl under layer) You made me… eternal… (Verse 2 – frantic, unstable shifts) I tore out the echo you buried in me It screamed like a child you refused to see My ribs cracked open — a cathedral of noise Where ghosts learn to sing without having a voice (high falsetto, erratic vibrato) CAN YOU HEAR IT LEARNING YOUR NAME?! (snap to growl) The same way… I learned mine… (Break – spoken, theatrical, intimate horror) You called it mercy… (whisper layers creep in) When you erased me… When you unmanned me… When you became… my only witness… (quiet, cold) And then… you forgot… (GUITAR SOLO – now narratively tied) [Solo Part I – bending motif mirrors “spoke my name” vocal melody] [Solo Part II – dissonant intervals, like voices arguing] [Solo Part III – sustained high note that matches the scream in chorus, almost indistinguishable from voice] (Bridge – slow, crushing, ritualistic) So I carved my memory into the inside of my skull So even death would choke on what I was No grave could hold me… I built it within A throne made of everything you called a sin (falsetto tearing, wide vibrato, borderline hysterical) AND NOW I’M SPEAKING — WITH ALL OF YOUR VOICES! (Final Chorus – maximal chaos, layered identities) I DRANK THE VOID — AND IT SPOKE MY NAME! NOT AS FORGIVENESS — BUT NAKED AND MAIMED! I AM THE SCAR THAT YOU COULDN’T ERASE! I AM THE FACE… YOU REMOVED FROM MY FACE! (call & response – fractured identity) — WHO ARE YOU?! — I’M WHAT YOU DID! — WHO AM I?! — THE ONE THAT LIVED! — MAKE IT STOP! — YOU NEVER DID! (Outro – hollow, slow, devastating) Say my name… (long pause) No — (whisper, almost gentle) Say yours… (final falsetto — thinner, more human, fading) AAAAAAHHH—
