✨ SONG 3 — “The Wound and the Echo” (for Chapter Three — generational harm, revelation, the unveiling) --- VERSE 1 There’s a shadow in the bloodline A whisper in the bone A story carried quietly Through every broken home I can feel it in the silence In the tremor of the past A wound that keeps repeating Like a spell that’s meant to last --- PRE‑CHORUS But the truth is rising slowly Like a lantern in the deep And the things we never named Are the things we couldn’t keep --- CHORUS This is the wound And this is the echo The pain that traveled down Through every hidden threshold This is the wound But now it’s in the light The shadow that we carried Is losing all its right --- VERSE 2 There are ghosts inside the heartbeat Patterns carved in quiet fear Hands that learned to tremble Long before we made it here But I’m standing in the doorway Where the darkness used to reign And I’m calling out the lineage By its long‑forgotten name --- PRE‑CHORUS For the truth is breaking open Like a storm that finally speaks And the chains that held our fathers Start to loosen at our feet --- CHORUS This is the wound And this is the echo The pain that traveled down Through every hidden threshold This is the wound But now it’s in the light The shadow that we carried Is losing all its right --- BRIDGE (haunting, layered vocals) Oh, the silence kept us captive Oh, the fear became our guide Oh, the wound became a teacher But the truth is on our side Let the darkness hear its sentence Let the lineage be undone Let the broken be remembered Let the healing now begin --- FINAL CHORUS (bigger, cinematic, but still dark‑ethereal) This is the wound But it’s breaking in the open The echo losing power As the truth becomes the spoken This is the wound But it’s fading in the light The shadow that we carried No longer has the right --- OUTRO (soft, breathy, almost whispered) I see you I name you I free you I end you ---
