Title: Lion’s Gate (August Roar) [Intro] (low distant roar + soft summer night ambience) August nights… Slow fade… Lion rising… [Verse 1] August nights are fading slow Summer love we used to know Salt air whispers where we go Wishing on a starry glow [Pre-Chorus] Every moment feels so right Underneath the fading light But we both can feel the shift tonight [Chorus] Summer’s peeling off my skin Like a label ripped from gin Old regrets go rattling thin But I’m not backing down again Hear that gate start shaking I’m done with half-awake I rise hard, I take my place [Verse 2] Streaking lights across the sky Perseids falling as they fly Cosmic secrets you and I Underneath the moon so high [Pre-Chorus] Darkness waits beyond the sun Eclipse is coming, almost one Two hearts beating, almost done [Chorus] Summer’s peeling off my skin Like a label ripped from gin Old regrets go rattling thin But I’m not backing down again Hear that gate start shaking I’m done with half-awake I rise hard, I take my place [Bridge – heavier, more animalistic] Cat on the porch in the moonlit air But I’m the lion, I don’t scare Mane on fire, eyes awake Anything that hunts me breaks Zucchini left without a care Neighbors laugh, but I don’t share This is mine — the night, the gate I was never meant to wait [Final Chorus – bigger, layered] Summer’s peeling off my skin Like a label ripped from gin Old regrets go rattling thin But I’m not backing down again Hear that gate start shaking I’m done with half-awake I rise hard, I take my place [Outro] (slow, powerful, almost spoken over fading roar) August 8… Lion’s Gate… I walk through. I irradiate irradiate means to expose something to radiation, light, or other radiant energy. It can mean treating food or medical tools to kill germs, using rays to treat a medical condition, shining a bright light on an object, or giving someone spiritual or intellectual insight
