CastoByte – Strings Don’t Lie [SSC8 - String us up Challenge]

(Prompts Deleted) [Intro] One string hums. That’s enough. [Verse 1] I hear the room breathe when I stop, wood and wire, nothing locked. Every scar inside my hand came from learning how to stand. No crowd here, no borrowed tone, every sound I make is my own. If I rush, the string fights back, truth snaps loud when focus cracks. [Pre-Chorus] You can’t fake what pulls you tight. You feel it burn before it sounds right. [Chorus] These strings don’t lie to me, they break if I pretend. Every note is honesty I couldn’t say back then. No noise to hide behind, no echo saving face. Just tension, skin and time keeping me in place. [Verse 2] I learned silence hits the hardest when you stop performing pain. Every pause is part of this, every miss still leaves a stain. The harder I control the sound, the faster it slips away. So I let the rhythm breathe and let the mistakes stay. [Bridge] If I mute it… will it still speak? Or am I scared of what it keeps? [Final Chorus] These strings don’t follow trends, they pull me back inside. Every strike redraws the line between running and decide. If this song ever cuts too deep, that means it’s still alive. I’d rather break a perfect take than mute the truth I find. [Outro] One last note. Let it ring. I don’t stop it. I let it end.