[Intro – Clean guitar, sparse drums, dark ambient tone] Cold… Callous… Was it muscle memory or a madness? Kill or be killed, understood. But why was I so damn good? ⸻ [Verse 1 – Steady rhythm, gritty vocals] In that theater of staged destruction, We waged our war without seduction. Not for glory, not for pride, Just to make it to the other side. No hesitation, no regrets. I danced in death like marionettes. No beat skipped, no second thought, Just targets down, just lives forgot. ⸻ [🔥 CHORUS – Full-band drop, raw and howled] The evil, the evil, does it live in me? A monster made so gracefully. I felt nothing, I was free, Now that truth is killing me. The evil, the evil, tell me, who’s to blame? The mission, the orders, or just my name? I slept easy, yeah, back then… But I’ll never sleep like that again. ⸻ [Verse 2 – Chugging guitars, rising tension] Father, son, a brother too, I didn’t ask, I never knew. I saw the scope, I pulled, I moved, Nothing personal, just the groove. They were the enemy, they weren’t me, That’s all I needed mentally. And still… That silence after fire cleared Was the only sound I feared. ⸻ [Bridge – Stripped vocals, rising to scream] That night… I slept like nothing changed. My bones tired, my soul estranged. The years went by… the truth took shape: My uniform’s not what kept me safe. It was numbness. It was ease. It was evil. ⸻ [🔥 Final Chorus – Bigger, unrelenting, layered vocals] The evil, the evil, does it live in me? I wore its mask so perfectly. No second thoughts, no breaking heart, Just played my goddamn part. The evil, the evil, I was trained to be… Efficient, deadly, morally clean. But now I see what I became, And I won’t ever be the same. ⸻ [Outro – Drop instruments, one voice, close mic’d. last word echoes into feedback and silence] The evil… The evil… It’s me.
