When The Day Dawns

[Intro]
Neon on my armor
Cracks along the chrome
City like a graveyard
For kids who made it home
[Verse 1]
I’ve been tracing every scar
Like a circuit in my chest
Blue glow on my broken heart
Error message: “do your best”
All my friends are phantom names
Floating in a shattered screen
I reload the same old pain
Like it’s coded in my genes
[Chorus]
When the day dawns
Will you still know my face?
If the night claws
Every color from this place
If I fall first
Through the wires and the storms
Hold my ghost close
When the day, when the day dawns
[Verse 2]
Steel sky, still I feel
Every hit beneath the skin
Praying to a dead ideal
That we swore we’d live within
Heavy pulse, it shakes the floor
Like a heart that will not quit
I’m a glitch inside a war
But I’m learning not to split
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[left-field, half-time feel]
I’ve been screaming in the feedback (yeah)
Hoping you would hear me back
Tore my throat on every relapse
Still I’m reaching through the black
[low vocal register]
If I burn out, if I break
If I vanish in the storm
[big melodic lift]
Let the sunrise steal my ache
Let it shape a brighter form
[Chorus]

rap, Epic symphonic power metal fused with modern emo-rap textures; double-kick drums and chugging guitars lock with distorted 808-style low end for a “destroyed subs” feel. Verses start in half-time with atmospheric cyberpunk pads, male vocals in a confessional tone; chorus explodes into full-speed power metal with soaring lead guitars, choirs, and orchestral strings. Bridge dives into a dark, bass-heavy breakdown with pitched-down ad-libs and glitchy FX before a final triumphant chorus., power metal, emo, metal, deep