Broken Halo

[Pre-Intro] (barely audible, distant, almost buried under static and a slow heartbeat pulse)

…still breathing…

…still fucking breathing…

Soft static crackles, then a single cracked whisper right in your ear:

“You left the knife in.

I never pulled it out.”

Silent screams in the dead of night

Echoes of a forgotten fight

I want you to forget me, I want to forget you

We’re lost… we’re broken… in the truth

Looking back, the bruise still hums

Never got it right, just chewed the gun

No way out of this fucking shell

I was built to burn, not get well

[Pre-Chorus] (start building, voice cracking)

But I would die for you, bleed for you

Can you see my halo through the bruising?

Though it’s painful, I’m prepared to lose

Drowning in this dark… I choose

[Chorus – THE HOOK] (loud, raw, almost yelling on the last lines)

You used to be mine, now you’re gone

I’m lost in this void, all alone

Left to die, left a hole

Where my heart used to hold

I should hate you… I should hate you

But I still love, I still want to

[Verse 2] (add this if you want more length)

Every night I replay the cut

Your name still burns under my tongue

Tried to kill it, tried to run

But the pain just hums when the day is done

But I would die for you, bleed for you

Can you see my halo through the bruising?

Though it’s painful, I’m prepared to lose

Drowning in this dark… I choose

[Chorus] (even bigger, more desperate)

You used to be mine, now you’re gone

I’m lost in this void, all alone

Left to die, left a hole

Where my heart used to hold

I should hate you… I should hate you

But I still love, I still want to

[Bridge] (almost spoken at first, then explode into screaming)

Locked inside my head, spinning the same old track

Just a fucked-up kid with a broken back

Your knife went deep… if you only knew

What you carved in me…

WHAT I’D STILL DO!

[Final Chorus / Outro] (screaming the last two lines, then drop to broken near-whisper)

You used to be mine, now you’re gone

I’m lost in this void, all alone

Left to die, left a hole

Where my heart used to hold

I should hate you…

But I still love…

I still want to…

Can you see my halo?

Even if it’s painful… I won’t let go.