We Cannot Live the Light Except for the Darkness

[Verse 1]
Trapped inside this maze of fire,
Broken dreams and barbed-wire choir.
Tried to rise, but the chains pull tight,
You can’t feel the day ‘til you’re bled through the night

[Pre-Chorus]
No more lie— I see the cost,
Every soul was shaped by what we lost.

[Chorus] (Soaring & fierce)
We cannot live the light— except for the darkness!
Burial in pain, yeah, that’s where the spark is.
We found our strongest in the heart of the madness,
Only the broken survive through the blackness!

[Verse 2]
Echoes scream behind these eyes,
The truth wears a mask and the silence lies.
You pray for peace but the war won’t sleep,
The light means nothing without the deep. 

[Pre-Chorus]
Can’t be saved— I won’t pretend,
The dark began where the light would end. 

[Chorus]
We cannot live the light—except for the darkness!
Crawling through fear, baptism in the hardness.
We made our stand when the world tried to starve us,
From the ashes we rose— relentless, heartless!

[Bridge —Spoken growl to scream build-up]
[Spoken]
You want salvation!
Then bleed for it.
[Screamed]
NO light…
WITHOUT… DARKNESS!
[Breakdown-Heavy riff with growl vocals]
Let it burn — let it fell,
No morn fear, break the wall!
Scarred and torn, still we fight,
Born of black — into the light!

[Final Chorus — Intense emotion & power]
We cannot live the light — except for the darkness!
Shadows within us, rising regardless.
We saw the flames, and we walked through the furnace—
‘Cause only the dark can show us what worth is!

[Outro- Whispered + slow fade]
Can’t live the light…
Except for the darkness…
And in the dark…
We are alive. 

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