The Sea Beyond the Wallsv6

[Intro — distant rain, muted piano, faint prison ambience] [Quiet clean vocals] The morning comes in through the bars. It never asks if I’m still here. [Verse 1 — restrained clean vocals] They numbered every door and window. They taught my hands to move in lines. The days were measured out in footsteps, the years dissolved beneath the lights. I kept a thought behind my silence, a place no key could ever reach. A little room beneath the surface, a shore I could not yet believe. [Pre-Chorus — clean vocals gradually building] You can lock the body in a room. You can make the calendar disappear. But somewhere underneath the concrete, a quiet voice keeps saying: not forever. [Chorus — soaring clean vocals] There is a sea beyond these walls. There is a sky they cannot own. I will carry what remains of me until the road becomes my own. Let the years fall from my shoulders. Let the rain erase my name. I am more than what they locked away. I am still alive beneath the stone. [Verse 2 — rhythmic clean vocals, occasional screamed accents] I watched the seasons change through wire. I saw a friend grow tired of hope. We spoke of places without fences, and learned how hard it is to go. [Scream] Don’t let the walls become your world! [Clean vocals] The night can stretch beyond belief. A single day can feel like forever. Still, I kept the sound of open water somewhere deep beneath the noise. [Pre-Chorus — stronger build, screamed final line] You can lock the body in a room. You can make the calendar disappear. But somewhere underneath the concrete— [Scream] —there’s a voice that won’t surrender! [Chorus — fuller guitars and backing vocals] There is a sea beyond these walls. There is a sky they cannot own. I will carry what remains of me until the road becomes my own. Let the years fall from my shoulders. Let the rain erase my name. I am more than what they locked away. I am still alive beneath the stone. [Post-Chorus Breakdown — heavy post-hardcore groove, shouted vocals] [Shout] NOT YOUR NUMBER! [Scream] NOT YOUR PROPERTY! [Shout] NOT YOUR SILENCE! [Everyone together] I AM STILL HERE! [Bridge — quiet piano and clean vocals, slowly building] A letter crossed the empty distance. A promise waited by the sea. I thought of all the years behind me, then chose the life that waited still. [Build — drums and guitars rise] No wall can keep the dawn from coming. No locked door can own the sky. [Final Chorus — biggest, emotional clean vocals with screams underneath] There is a sea beyond these walls. There is a sky they cannot own. I will carry what remains of me until the road becomes my own. Let the years fall from my shoulders. Let the rain erase my name. I am more than what they locked away. I am still alive beneath the stone. [Final Breakdown — emotional, heavy, half-time] [Scream] I AM NOT WHAT THEY TOOK! [Clean shout] I AM WHAT I KEPT! [Scream] I AM NOT WHAT THEY TOOK! [Everyone together] I AM STILL HERE! [Outro — rain fades into distant waves] [Quiet clean vocals] The walls are gone. The sea is real.