[Intro, acoustic guitar alone, slow haunted folk-country feel, close room tone] [Verse 1, baritone alone, old ballad cadence] Heard a bell in a lonely well, Comforted me through the evening quell A storm arrived the day I was born, Led me here, tattered and torn. [Pre-Chorus, add cello and warm bass, restrained] Before I crawled, I fell. Before I spoke, I burned. Just a whisper in the riot— The voice that calls me home Is the only one to save my soul. [Chorus, dry drums enter gently, strings low, no backing singers yet] A million faces, a restless sea, Searching for something to set me free. I’ve been running from the flood Just to find the fire and the love In the silence where my shadow lived. [Verse 2, pull back to acoustic guitar, cello, and close vocal] Heard a hymn from a broken limb, Carried my weight when the light grew dim. Saw the lies in blinded eyes, Silence wears a kind disguise. [Chorus, fuller band, faint electric guitar shimmer] A million faces, a restless sea, Searching for something to set me free. I’ve been running from the flood Just to find the fire and the love In the silence where my shadow lived. [Bridge, backing singers enter softly, low and haunted, band darkens] The bell became the storm, The spark became the flood. The past became the ghost, I tried to bury it— But it rises again. [Final Chorus, full band and backing singers, healed but weathered, less bright than Track 10] A million faces, a restless sea, Searching for something to set me free. I’ve been running from the flood Just to find the fire and the love. In the silence, I begin again In the silence, where my shadow lived. [Outro, backing singers fade, acoustic guitar and cello end alone]
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