BENEATH THE STATIC

**Verse I (Clean / distant)**

There’s a signal in my bones

Where your voice still comes and goes

Like a ghost inside the wire

Flickering, but never close

I kept you warm inside my ribs

While you slept behind a wall

Every promise lost its shape

Every truth began to stall

**Pre-Chorus (Clean → Strain)**

I waited for the silence to speak

It only taught me how to bleed

**Chorus (Clean / aching)**

I loved you under broken lights

Where nothing ever felt complete

I gave you days, I gave you nights

You left me counting heartbeats

If this was love, it learned to hide

If this was hope, it learned to lie

I called your name into the static

It never called me back

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**Verse II (Clean / darker)**

You said “stay close” then pulled away

Left me standing in between

I learned to read your absence

Like it was something meant for me

I fed the fire just to freeze

Tried to soften all your edges

But every time I reached for you

You taught me different distances

**Pre-Chorus II (Half-scream)**

You don’t get to call this fate

When you watched me suffocate

**Chorus II (Clean → Grit)**

I loved you past the warning signs

(***PAST THE SIGNS***)

Past the point of self-respect

(***SELF-RESPECT***)

I broke myself to keep you whole

(***I BROKE***)

You called it love—

***I CALL IT NEGLECT***

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### **Bridge / Breakdown (FULL SCREAMS)**

***I WAITED***

***YOU LEFT***

***I BLED***

***YOU RESTED***

***YOU TOOK MY QUIET***

***YOU TOOK MY SLEEP***

***YOU TOOK EVERYTHING***

***EXCEPT THE BLAME***

*(drop — one scream held)*

***SAY MY NAME***

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**Final Chorus (Clean Lead + Layered Screams)**

I loved you under broken lights

(***BROKEN ME***)

Where nothing ever felt complete

(***NEVER COMPLETE***)

I’m done screaming through the static

(***DONE SCREAMING***)

I choose me when you don’t choose me

If this is love, it ends tonight

(***ENDS TONIGHT***)

If this is faith, I cut the line

(***CUT IT***)

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**Outro (Clean, fading)**

The signal’s gone

The room is quiet

And for the first time

I survive it

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