⸻ 🎼 “I Need the Antidote (After the Fire)” ⸻ [Intro | distant wind | low drone | faint radio chatter fading] Barracks window in the early morning Heat rising off the stone Coffee cold in a metal cup Didn’t know it’d be the last calm moment I’d know Oh ⸻ [Verse 1 | slow build | heartbeat kick | muted guitar] I’m on the brink of the brink Just another routine Then the sky split apart By a flash I still see Walls folded into flame Names lost in the smoke I grabbed steel, returned fire Through a world that just broke ⸻ [Pre-Chorus | rising tension | distant siren tones] Shrapnel singing past my head Felt the ground turn into red Everything I knew was gone But I kept holding on ⸻ [Chorus | emotional but controlled] I need the antidote Pull me out of that moment again I need the antidote Stop it replaying inside my head I need the antidote I need some silence I need some peace Ooh ooh I need the antidote ⸻ [Chant Chorus 1 | low, distant, almost hollow] Down and out I’m out when I’m down and out Still hear the blast in my sleep Down and out I’m out when I’m down and out Promises I couldn’t keep ⸻ [Instrumental Solo 0 | short | mournful trombone phrase] ⸻ [Verse 2 | stripped | minimal instrumentation] Came back home but I never landed Still there in ‘83 Faces turn into shadows moving Every stranger watching me Tried to work, tried to breathe But the world moved wrong Twenty years just slipping past Like I didn’t belong ⸻ [Pre-Chorus 2 | heavier emotional push] No one saw what I carried inside So I buried it deep and let it ride Bottle after bottle to quiet the sound But it never drowned ⸻ [Chorus 2 | stronger | fractured emotion] I need the antidote Pull me out of that moment again I need the antidote Stop it replaying inside my head I need the antidote I need some silence I need some peace Ooh ooh I need the antidote ⸻ [Chant Chorus 2 | escalation | paranoid edge] Down and out I’m out when I’m down and out Every face could be a threat Down and out I’m out when I’m down and out Can’t forget, can’t forget ⸻ [Instrumental Solo 1 | expressive guitar + low strings | tense] ⸻ [Bridge / Verse 3 | intimate | piano + low drone] They said I made it home alive But something stayed behind Every night I’m back in that fire Every day I’m trying to rewind Got a medal, got a name But no way to feel the same All I wanted was a way To make it stop replaying ⸻ [Instrumental Solo 2 | mournful | trombone + ambient strings] ⸻ [Final Chorus | biggest emotional release] I need the antidote Something to quiet the war in me I need the antidote Something to let me just be free I need the antidote I need some silence I need some peace Ooh ooh I need the antidote ⸻ [Outro Chant | fading | distant ambience returns] Down and out I’m out when I’m down and out Still fighting what I can’t see Down and out I’m out when I’m down and out Just trying to be me ⸻ [Final Line | quiet, broken] I made it home… but not all of me ⸻
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