Track · Aug 19, 2026 · English
Redemption in suffering
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6:34
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English
Lyrics
[Slow progressive alternative-metal • ~58 BPM • half-time pulse • low-tuned guitars • hypnotic bass • spacious drums • restrained, haunting male vocal • long instrumental breathing room]
[INTRO — 8 bars | distant feedback / clean guitar harmonics]
[Bass enters alone. Drums crawl in. Let every note decay.]
There’s a shape where the light used to sleep,
a hollow pressed into the floor.
I keep feeding names to the silence,
but it doesn’t answer anymore.
Something left its teeth in the doorway,
something took the warmth from the stone.
I wore the absence like a second skin
until I forgot which one was my own.
[VERSE I — sparse / whispered]
I counted every missing shadow,
measured every empty chair.
Built a temple from the fragments,
then cursed the thing that wasn’t there.
The wound became an altar.
The altar became a cage.
I kept the rust inside my mouth
and called the bitterness my faith.
[PRE-CHORUS — tension slowly rising]
[Tom pattern begins. Bass grows distorted.]
But somewhere underneath the ruin,
beneath the marrow, beneath the blame—
a quiet pulse kept digging upward,
something without a name.
[CHORUS — HUGE HALF-TIME]
[Crushing low guitar chords. Wide vocals. Drums hit like collapsing walls.]
TAKE—
WHAT’S LEFT—
OF ME.
Drag it through the blackened water.
BREAK—
THE WEIGHT—
I KEEP.
Let the current pull me farther.
I buried everything I loved
to keep the dead from leaving me…
Now I’m learning—
[instruments drop out]
…how to let them leave.
[INSTRUMENTAL — 12 bars]
[Odd-meter bass riff against slow 4/4 drums. Guitar bends slowly out of tune. Build tension without increasing tempo.]
[VERSE II — darker, intimate]
The mirror grew another face.
The scar forgot the blade.
Roots curled around the bones below
and drank from my decay.
I thought redemption wore a halo.
I thought forgiveness came as light.
Instead it crawled up from the bottom
with dirt beneath its nails at night.
It said—
You cannot carry every ghost.
You cannot bleed them back to breath.
Some doors become an opening
only after something leaves.
[BREAKDOWN I — EXTREMELY SLOW / HALF-TIME]
[Massive palm-muted riff. Long rests between hits. Bass follows guitar exactly.]
LET.
IT.
SINK.
[HIT]
Down through the anger.
[HIT]
Down through the grief.
[HIT]
Down where the thing I thought destroyed me
has been waiting underneath.
[BRIDGE — clean guitar / almost whispered]
Maybe losing was the doorway.
Maybe breaking was the key.
Maybe all the hands I couldn’t hold
were never meant to drown with me.
[Long silence]
And in the place
where something ended…
something
opened
its eyes.
[FINAL CHORUS — explosive / layered harmonies]
TAKE—
WHAT’S LEFT—
OF ME.
Wash the ashes from the water.
BREAK—
THE WEIGHT—
I KEEP.
I don’t need to sink much farther.
The names remain beneath my tongue.
The scars remain beneath my skin.
I didn’t climb out unchanged—
I CRAWLED OUT
WORTHY
OF BEGINNING AGAIN.
[FINAL BREAKDOWN — slowest/heaviest section]
[Tempo-feel drops to ~29 BPM. Mo
Style
progressive alt-metalodd time signatureshypnotic basstribal drumsdark vocalscrushing riffseerie atmosphere.english
Credits
Prompt by
TheBroken
TheBrokenGeneratedAug 19, 2026
ModelZona