(Tempo: 140 BPM)(Style: Cinematic Metalcore / Post-Hardcore. Haunting piano leads, atmospheric synth pads, heavy down-tuned guitar chugs, and an explosive, emotional chorus)(Intro)(A lonely, echoing piano melody plays in a minor key. Static rain fades in. Suddenly, a massive blast beat and a piercing guitar lead explode out of the silence, then abruptly drop back down to a pulsing ambient synth pad)(Verse 1)(Vocal: Soft, spoken-word cadence, laced with desperation)I am standing in the wreckage of the words we never saidTracing outlines of your shadow on the cold side of the bedThe grandfather clock is ticking, but the gears are full of rustEvery promise that we made has finally settled into dustThe air is getting thinner, and the shadows grow so tallI can feel your phantom fingers moving softly through the wall(Pre-Chorus)(Music begins to build, heavy distorted guitars start to chug slowly)Do you hear me screaming out into the void?Look at the beautiful ruin that we both destroyed...(Chorus)(Vocal: Explodes into a soaring, gritty, emotionally strained clean delivery. Wall of sound guitars and driving drums)So drag me under the blackest water, let the current take my breath!If this beautiful disaster is a dance inside of death!For our love was just a match we struck to watch each other burnA tragic lesson that we never lived to learnNow the darkness is a heavy coat I wearDrowning in the beauty of despair!(Verse 2)(Music drops completely, leaving only an ambient electronic beat and a low bass drone)The cemetery lilies are suffocating in the frostI am calculating everything we loved and everything we lostYou were a canvas painted black, a storm I tried to chaseNow I am trapped inside the static, trying to find your faceEvery memory’s a razor blade that’s cutting through my skinTell me, how did we let the monsters win?(Chorus)(Guitars crash back in with maximum impact, maximum emotional weight)So drag me under the blackest water, let the current take my breath!If this beautiful disaster is a dance inside of death!For our love was just a match we struck to watch each other burnA tragic lesson that we never lived to learnNow the darkness is a heavy coat I wearDrowning in the beauty of despair!(Bridge)(The music stops for a split second. Vocal shifts to a raw, guttural, aggressive scream. A brutal, down-tuned metalcore breakdown hits with heavy bass drops)IS IT LOVE IF IT DOESN'T BLEED?!IS IT REAL IF IT DOESN'T BLEED?!Bury my heart beneath the floorboards!Bury my soul beneath the floorboards!I would choke on your poison just to feel you breathe!(A chaotic, screeching melodic guitar solo cuts through the breakdown, full of pitch squeals and sorrow)(Chorus)(The final chorus hits, layered with massive ambient strings in the background to maximize the cinematic scale)So drag me under the blackest water, let the current take my breath!If this beautiful disaster is a dance inside of death!For our love was just a match we struck to watch each other burnA tragic lesson that we never lived to learnNow the darkness is a heavy coat I wearDrowning in the beauty of despair!(Outro)(The heavy instruments vanish instantly. Only the lonely piano melody from the intro remains, paired with the sound of falling rain)(Vocal: Faint, breathless whisper)Ashes to ashes...The static takes the light...Bury me...Beneath the night.(The final piano chord rings out with heavy reverb, fading slowly into the sound of rain until there is absolute silence)
