Taught to Speak

Intro (spoken / growled)

I don’t want peace

I want release

(low growl)

LET IT OUT

(mid scream)

LET IT OUT

(higher fry scream)

LET IT FUCKING OUT

(gang shout)

RELEASE ME

(inhale)

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Verse 1

I wake up choking on a loaded breath

Every thought a threat

Every name a debt

I don’t forgive

I remember everything

I carve the past into the backs of my teeth

Raised by fists

Fed by lies

Taught to win

Or fucking die

I don’t bend

I don’t heal

I survive

By how I feel

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Pre-Chorus

You call it anger

I call it truth

You call me broken

I call it proof

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Chorus

HATE

IS

THE

LANGUAGE

I WAS TAUGHT BEFORE I COULD SPEAK

VENGEANCE

IS

THE

PROMISE

THAT THE STRONG DEVOUR THE WEAK

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Verse 2

I don’t need hope

Hope is weak

I need a target

I need my teeth

I learned real fast

Love gets you killed

So I crowned my rage

And taught it to rule

I don’t trust gods

I don’t trust men

I don’t trust mercy

It hesitates

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Pre-Chorus

You preach restraint

I sharpen spite

You beg for calm

I choose the fight

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Chorus

HATE

IS

THE

LANGUAGE

I WAS TAUGHT BEFORE I COULD SPEAK

VENGEANCE

IS

THE

PROMISE

THAT THE STRONG DEVOUR THE WEAK

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Bridge (slammed / half-time)

I DON’T NEED HEALING

I NEED IMPACT

I DON’T NEED LOVE

I NEED IT BACK

TAKEN

STRAINED

RIPPED

AWAY

THIS IS WHAT YOU MADE

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Breakdown (open, hostile, chantable)

TEETH OUT

HANDS UP

BURN IT ALL

NO MERCY

NO GOD

NO FUCKING CALL

SPIT

BITE

STRIKE

AGAIN

I’LL DIE BEFORE I KNEEL TO THEM

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Final Chorus (gang vocals)

HATE

IS

THE

LANGUAGE

I WAS TAUGHT BEFORE I COULD SPEAK

VENGEANCE

IS

THE

PROMISE

THAT THE STRONG DEVOUR THE WEAK

⸻

Outro (spoken → whisper → final scream)

You ask why I’m angry.

You ask what went wrong.

Like you weren’t there

When the walls were shaking.

When the doors were breaking.

When the silence felt like a loaded gun.

You built this in me.

Brick by brick.

Lie by lie.

Fist by fist.

You fed it.

You named it.

Then you blamed it on me.

(whispered underlayer)

You made me.

You made me.

You made me.

Don’t look surprised

When it answers back.

Look around.

This isn’t anger.

This is inheritance.

(silence beat)

…SPEAK.