[intro]
[Verse 1]
(Voice: intimate, almost spoken with audible breathing)
(musical instruments: clean arpeggio with stopped strings, hit every two beats, long and sustained bass)
If I asked you if you love me, you’d say yes,
If I asked you if you’re hurting, you’d fake rest.
Your eyes are the only voice you have to confess,
They scream through the cracks in your quiet caress.
I feel your bones in the hollow of my hands,
Like holding the ghost of forgotten lands.
[Pre-Chorus]
(Voice: controlled to hold back a scream)
(musical instruments: full, clean chords with reverb, off-b**t drums, moving bass)
You shine like a child in the dark,
Even as the shadows pull you apart.
[Chorus]
(Voice: full, scratchy and rough)
(Musical instruments: distorted guitar, long power chords, long sustain, open c***h on the first b**t of each bar, pushing bass in fourths)
Your green eyes still b*****g,
While the shadows start to stay.
You’re here, but you’re fading,
Like a presence I can’t chase away.
I hold you tighter,
As the night steals your flame.
I hold you tighter,
As the night steals your flame.
[Verse 2]
(Voice: intimate and tense)
(musical instruments: arpeggio with stopped strings, hit every two beats, long and sustained bass)
Your breath is a whisper, a shiver, a thread,
Every rise and fall counts the words left unsaid.
I see the truth in the tremble you try to shed,
Even when your lips paint a smile instead.
You dance in the ruins, defying the ground,
Turning the silence into a fearless sound.
[Pre-Chorus]
(Voice: full, scratchy and rough)
(Musical instruments: distorted guitar, long power chords, long sustain, open c***h on the first b**t of each bar, pushing bass in fourths)
You shine like a child in the dark,
Even as the shadows pull you apart.
[Chorus]
(Voice: full, scratchy and rough)
(Musical instruments: distorted guitar, long power chords, long sustain, open c***h on the first b**t of each bar, pushing bass in fourths)
Your green eyes still b*****g,
While the shadows start to stay.
You’re here, but you’re fading,
Like a presence I can’t chase away.
I hold you tighter,
As the night steals your flame.
I hold you tighter,
As the night steals your flame.
[Bridge]
(Voice: spoken/screamed)
(Musical instruments: open chords with delay, ascending rolls)
I see you…
Half here, half gone,
But all of you still mine.
If the world turns you into silence,
I’ll speak your name until it breaks.
[Final Chorus]
(Voice: full and dirty)
(Musical instruments: full explosion)
Your green eyes still b*****g,
Even when the day won’t come.
You’re here, and you’re leaving,
But the shadows can’t take what we’ve done.
I hold you tighter,
As the night steals your flame.
I hold you tighter,
Till my arms turn to stone.
Outro
(Voice: broken and whispered)
You laugh like a child,
And I swear I hear the sun.
Echecacchio