(Atmospheric doom intro with distant, echoing clean guitars swelling into crushing blackened riffs; guttural screams on verses, haunting clean vocals laced with reverb on chorus, funeral-dirge breakdown in bridge) Verse 1 A withered husk beneath the skin Where once a flame dared to burn Mirrors fracture into endless voids Reflecting faces I’ve unlearned The dawn arrives like rusted blades Carving deeper into bone Each breath a chain forged in regret In this cathedral built of stone Chorus I dissolve… dissolve… into the endless dark No ember left to guide my spark The steel sings lullabies of release Tonight I kneel in silent peace No thorns of sorrow, no rivers of grief Only the hush beyond belief Last exhale, perpetual night Farewell… I surrender the light Verse 2 Memories bleed like autumn rain On graves where laughter lies interred The ghosts of voices I once knew Drift farther, unheard, unstirred Vials of promise, shattered vows “Tomorrow will mend the fracture” Yet tomorrow is a withered rose Wilted in the grip of rapture Chorus I dissolve… dissolve… into the endless dark No ember left to guide my spark The steel sings lullabies of release Tonight I kneel in silent peace No thorns of sorrow, no rivers of grief Only the hush beyond belief Last exhale, perpetual night Farewell… I surrender the light Bridge (slow, whispered growls over trembling clean tones and distant piano) I clawed against the tide… I swear I clawed But the abyss always claimed its due No eyes beheld the war within Now the battlefield falls silent too If these words ever reach your shore Know love arrived too late to save Forgive me… gods, forgive me… Seal the crypt… close the grave Final Chorus (layered screams and fragile clean vocals, fading into dissonant feedback and silence) Dissolving… dissolving… into the endless dark No hand to pull me from the mark The noose embraces warmer than life Tonight I cross the final knife No anguish left, no terror’s cry Just absence… I say goodbye Last exhale, perpetual night I’m gone… extinguish the light
