Absent but Present

😐 [Verse 1 – Controlled, tense delivery]

I’m in the room but out of frame

Background noise with a broken name

I speak and no one looks my way

Guess it’s easier to pretend I’m gray

Sit at the table, hold my tongue

Swallow the thoughts, spit blood in my lungs

They say, “You’ve changed,” but I stayed the same

You just forgot I had a name

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💣 [Pre-Chorus – Building pressure]

I wrote my worth in silence

Carved my rage behind compliance

You see the shell, not the storm

But I was never meant to be your norm

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🔥 [Chorus – Explosive, scream-and-sing]

🎤 Absent but present, screaming in place

🎤 You never saw me—just took up my space

🎤 Now I’m the echo you can’t erase

🎤 I’ll haunt your silence with my face

🎤 Absent but present, ghost in your crowd

🎤 You’ll remember me when I get loud

🎤 You wanted quiet—well here’s the sound:

🎤 I’m still here, and I’m not backing down!

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😡 [Verse 2 – Bitter and rising in power]

Told me I mattered, just not right now

My turn to talk? Too late somehow

You picked your favorites, left me blank

Now I’m the fire in your gaslit tank

I wore a smile like it meant I was fine

But I’m the landmine under your line

You’ll miss the version you ignored—

But this one kicks down the door

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⚠️ [Pre-Chorus – Louder, unchained]

No more second chair, no more mute

I’ve sharpened silence into truth

You want polite? I want real

You want peace? I want to feel

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🧨 [Chorus – Repeat w/ extra rage]

🎤 Absent but present, screaming in place

🎤 You never saw me—just took up my space

🎤 Now I’m the echo you can’t erase

🎤 I’ll haunt your silence with my face

🎤 Absent but present, ghost in your crowd

🎤 You’ll remember me when I get loud

🎤 You wanted quiet—well here’s the sound:

🎤 I’m still here, and I’m not backing down!

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🧠 [Bridge – Screamed, distorted, broken]

I DIED IN YOUR CONVERSATIONS

REVIVED BY MY OWN DAMN FURY

YOU DON’T GET TO FORGET ME

YOU DON’T GET TO ERASE ME

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🔊 [Final Chorus – Slower start, then massive finish]

🎤 Absent but present—now I’m the storm

🎤 You thought I’d vanish? I just transformed

🎤 No longer small, no longer soft—

🎤 I’m the silence you set off

🎤 Absent but present—turn me down now

🎤 Go ahead. Watch me burn this out loud.

🎤 I was never invisible…

🎤 I was just waiting to be found.