Fading

[Intro] (…I’m slipping…) (…don’t let me go…) [Verse 1 – Death & Heaven] I watched my heartbeat slip into silence, like a door shutting slow on a life I never claimed. Weightless… drifting toward a sky that felt so quiet, full of faces with no memories of my name. Golden gates… they never opened for a stranger, and I walked past angels who never turned their heads. I felt like a ghost among the saved and grateful, already slipping from the memory of the life I led. (why can’t they see me…?) [Chorus] Fading.. between the realms that never held a place for me. Fading.. through heaven, into hell, and back to empty streets. Fading.. like every trace of me was swallowed by the deep. Fading.. ’cause the world keeps turning on while I fall endlessly. [Verse 2 – Hell & Earth] I stepped into the fire where the lost keep screaming, saw reflections of the anger that I tried so hard to hide. Demons wore the moments that I spent self-bleeding, every regret I buried pulled me deeper in the tide. Then suddenly… I was back in the world I once lived in, watching people pass like nothing ever slipped away. Laughter in the air like I was never in it— the sun kept rising though my soul had gone astray. (guess I never mattered…) [Pre-Chorus 2] No outline even flickers… No whisper speaks my name… Did I ever leave a mark here, or was I nothing all the same? (nothing… nothing…) [Chorus 2] Fading.. between the realms that never held a place for me. Fading.. through heaven, into hell, and back to empty streets. Fading.. like every breath I lost was never meant to be. Fading.. as the world keeps moving on without remembering me. [Breakdown – Being Consumed] (whispers) “maybe I never mattered…” (whispers) “maybe I was never real…” [SCREAMS] MAYBE I NEVER MATTERED— (yeah!) MAYBE I WAS NEVER REAL— (never real!) THE WORLD KEPT MOVIN’ FORWARD— (keep moving!) AND LEFT ME HERE TO FEEL— (feel it!) I WAS BORN FROM NOTHING— (nothing!) NOTHING’S WHAT I FEEL— (feel!) I’M FALLING— (falling!) I’M FALLING— (let me fall!) LET ME FALL AND NEVER HEAL— (never heal!) (drop) FA—DING! (fading..) FA—DING! (don’t let me go…) FA—DING INTO THE VOID THAT SWALLOWED ME! [Bridge – The Voices That Save You] Then I heard a voice… gentle, breaking, calling— the people who still loved me speaking through the memories we lived. Their pain reached out to me, holding on to what I thought was gone… and for the first time in the silence, I felt like I still belonged. (…I mattered to someone…) [Final Chorus – The Reveal] Fading… between the realms that tried to steal the warmth from me. Fading… ’til the love I thought was gone reached across the breach. Fading… I saw their tears and heard them whisper who I used to be. Fading…