[Tempo: 95 BPM | Key: E minor | Mood: Dark, fated, rising intensity] [Intro | low guitar hum, distant thunder, slide guitar weeping] (spoken, close-mic, intimate) I walked a thousand wrong directions… just to learn your name. [Verse 1 | restrained, pulsing riff] I was born in the echo of a slammed door Raised on the sound of leaving Every hand I held turned into smoke Every truth I knew was bleeding I chased every ghost through midnight towns Wore my sins like a crown of rust Every road led nowhere… till it bent somehow Like it always knew it was us [Pre-Chorus | tension rising, drums building] Every scar spelled out your silhouette Every loss was a breadcrumb trail I was breaking into who I’d be Every time I failed [Chorus | full band, explosive, gritty belts] All my life was a matchstick burning Just to light you in the dark Every wrong turn, every crashing lesson Was a map straight to your heart I was lost till the moment found me Like a storm that finally knew Every second, every shattered piece of me Was always leading… to you [Verse 2 | groove deeper, more confident] I drank from the well of empty love Let it poison all my veins Heard forever in a hundred lies But it never said your name I felt you in the spaces between In the silence after the fall Like a whisper stitched in my soul so deep I was never alone at all [Pre-Chorus | stronger, climbing] Every fire I walked through carved your shape Every night rewrote my truth I was dying into who I am Just to stand here with you [Chorus | bigger, more force] All my life was a matchstick burning Just to light you in the dark Every wrong turn, every crashing lesson Was a map straight to your heart I was lost till the moment found me Like a storm that finally knew Every second, every shattered piece of me Was always leading… to you [Bridge | stripped at first, haunting, then erupts] (half-time, minimal guitar) If I could rewind the pain, I wouldn’t dare Every cut wrote your name somewhere (build begins, drums creeping in) Every lifetime, every fall from grace Was just time trying to set this place (full explosion) I’d break again, I’d burn it all down Walk through hell just to be here now [Final Chorus | maximum intensity, soaring vocal] All my life was a matchstick burning Just to light you in the dark Every wrong turn, every shattered memory Was a map straight to your heart I was lost till the moment found me Now there’s nothing left to prove Every second, every breath I ever took Was always leading… [Outro | instruments drop, raw vocal + slide guitar] (soft, reverent) …to you. (long guitar fade, like heat disappearing into night)
