escalation-fight/flight/freeze (hard techno vers.)

i am the escalation („shell-shocked“) Verse 1 – The Man I hate the quiet at night… But the fire inside drags me out. I stumble through the clubs… Keep to the edges, avoid the crowd. Blurred faces… fists fly… I never start the fights… or maybe I do… Sometimes I can’t recall. I am tall… but I feel small… Like back then. Old nightmares follow me home… Same wars… old pain… won’t leave me alone. Violence… screams… Hands reaching… I can’t save… I wake… heart racing… Body drenched in cold sweat… Trapped in a past I can’t seem to forget Verse 2 – The Woman I count the cracks on my inner walls… Trace the shadows… replay silent screams… The escape blocked… every move… My mind spins battles I cannot name… My nights are terror… my days are shame… I am the escalation… But it’s quiet in here… No broken glass… Just a shell in fear… I don’t scream… I don’t run… I don’t fight… I freeze… I am the escalation… Turned inward… silently… Violence… screams… Hands reaching… I can’t save… I wake… heart racing… Body drenched in cold sweat… Trapped in a past I can’t seem to forget Shadows… pain… Faces of wars… bleeding through time… I am lost… yet here I remain… But why…? A wind touches me… Soft as dawn… steady as a heartbeat… A warmth… unseen but near… I reach for a hand… Guiding me forward… The shell cracks… softens… And for the first time in a long time… A path appears… I am still raw… wild… broken… But now there’s a way… A door that opens… My Savior is calling… And hope rises… I breathe… I step… I open my eyes… For the first time… I feel the weight lift… I can clearly see.