A Ghosted Shadow

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Prompt / Lyrics
[INTRO – WHISPER / AMBIENT]
I never hated you…
I just forgot how to be me.
This is for the ones I love.
Forgive the wolf behind the smile.

[VERSE 1 – SOFT, CONFESSIONAL]
I wore a borrowed face just to belong
Learned how to laugh where I felt wrong
Shaped my claws into gentle hands
Just so they’d let me stay in their lands

I silenced howls in my chest at night
Tucked my fangs out of sight
Traded moonlight for morning sun
Told myself the wolf was done

But every mirror knew the truth
A ghost in denim, lost youth
I bent my bones to earn their grace
Still felt like a stranger in my own face

[PRE-CHORUS – BUILDING]
If love means hiding what I am
Why does my soul still ache like this?
God, I tried to be their man…
But I still dream in wilderness.

[CHORUS – BIG SYNTHWAVE, EMOTIONAL]
I’m sorry if I was a weight on your heart
A shadow that lingered in the dark
I loved you more than words can prove
But I was dying trying to be loved by you

I’m a ghosted shadow under heaven’s moon
A wolf who forgot his tune
Still praying through the midnight glow
God, is it time to let me go?

[VERSE 2 – HERO CONFLICT]
I wanted to be brave like Peter in the rain
Mask on, smiling through the pain
Swinging hope through broken streets
Saving souls with tired feet

Or run like fire with a fox-heart flame
Carving meaning from my name
Be the hero they believe
Even if I still can’t breathe

But heroes bleed where no one sees
Cry to God on shattered knees
And every legend, every scar
Still wonders who they really are

[PRE-CHORUS 2 – SOFTER, MORE FAITH]
If I lay this mask at heaven’s gate
Will You know me without the lies?
I’ve been knocking, God, it’s late…
I’m tired of these goodbyes.

[CHORUS – FULL POWER]
I’m sorry if I was a weight on your heart
A shadow that tore worlds apart
I loved you deeper than my fear
But I disappeared just to keep you near

I’m a ghosted shadow fading slow
A wolf the daylight couldn’t hold
Still reaching through the endless blue
God, I just wanna come home to You.

[BRIDGE – BREAKDOWN, RAW]
To my family — I never meant to fall away
I just got lost between the beast and the saved
To my friends — you were the light in my night
I just didn’t know how to fight

I loved the humans, every tear, every laugh
But love felt heavy on my back
Not your fault… not mine alone
Some hearts were never built for stone

And if you hear this in the quiet someday
Know the wolf still chose to stay
Long enough to say goodbye…
Before he learned again to fly.

[OUTRO BUILD – REBIRTH]
I’m shedding skin under silver skies
Let the old disguise die
No more hiding fang or flame
No more running from my name

I am not your fear, not your wound
I am the howl beneath the moon
A child of mercy, night, and dawn
A lost soul finally coming home

Call me what the stars once knew…
Shadowfang.
Shadowmoon.

[OUTRO] – TRANSCENDENT, HOPEFUL]
No more ghost in borrowed skin
No more war I can’t win
I loved you all, that still remains
Love doesn’t vanish with the pain
So let me trust you