**Intro** *(A clean, echoing, melancholy guitar riff plays alone for four measures.)* *(Suddenly, the drums kick in with a frantic blast beat and heavily distorted, dissonant chords.)* **[Spoken Word - Quiet, desperate]** I built this cage. I turned the lock. **[High-Pitched Fry Scream - Piercing and raw]** TEAR IT APART! **Verse 1** **[Screamed - Frantic, chaotic pacing]** I wove the iron with the threads of my own pride! There’s a war in my chest and I’m bleeding on the inside! The flesh demands a throne, the flesh demands a crown, But I’m ripping out the roots and I’m burning it all down! I am a hypocrite choking on my own disguise! God, shatter the mirror! God, sever the lies! **Chorus** *(The chaotic blast beats drop into a wide, open, driving rock groove. The guitars become massive and chord-heavy.)* **[Clean Vocals - High, soaring, and intensely emotional]** Cut away the dead parts of me! Let the blood of the Lamb wash the wreckage clean! I am dying to live, I am breaking to breathe, Take this hollowed-out heart and give it exactly what it needs! I surrender the ghost! I surrender the ghost! **Verse 2** *(Back to the frantic, dissonant screamo instrumentation. Staccato guitar riffs.)* **[Harsh Vocals - Guttural lows alternating with high shrieks]** *(Low)* The serpent whispers in the static! *(High)* My pulse is erratic, my mind is so fragile! I drag this corpse a thousand miles just to leave it at Your feet, But it keeps crawling back to me! *(Band completely stops for a split second)* **[Screamed]** NO MORE! Nail it to the wood! Leave it in the dirt where You said that I should! **Chorus** *(Massive, open instrumentation)* **[Clean Vocals - Soaring and emotional]** Cut away the dead parts of me! Let the blood of the Lamb wash the wreckage clean! I am dying to live, I am breaking to breathe, Take this hollowed-out heart and give it exactly what it needs! I surrender the ghost! I surrender the ghost! **Bridge / The Breakdown** *(The music fades to just a single, pulsing bass drum and a faint cymbal tap. Slowly, a low-tuned, sludgy, incredibly heavy guitar riff starts building.)* **[Spoken - building in intensity]** Romans seven. Wretched man that I am. Who will deliver me from this body of death? Who will deliver me? *(The full band drops in with earth-shattering, syncopated, slow chugs.)* **[Deathcore Low Screams - Brutal and slow]** CRUCIFY. THE FLESH. CRUCIFY. THE FLESH. *(Tempo slows down even more, grinding to a crawl)* DELIVER ME! THANK GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST! DELIVER ME! **Outro** *(The heavy breakdown seamlessly transitions into a beautiful, chaotic wall of sound. The clean vocalist and the screamer overlap each other.)* **[Clean Vocals]** *(Holding long, soaring notes)* Your grace is the violence that saves me from myself... Your grace is the violence... **[Screamed Vocals in the background]** I AM FOUND! I AM YOURS! TAKE IT ALL! *(The instruments abruptly cut out. A single, echoing guitar note rings out and fades to silence.)*
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