THE SONG BEFORE TIME
[Intro — whispered / distant]
Somewhere beneath the silence,
Somewhere beyond the years,
A sound awakens slowly,
And I remember tears.
I know this song.
I've always known.
But when I reach to find it,
I'm somewhere I've never gone.
[Verse I — restrained, mysterious]
I found a door inside a melody,
A hidden room behind a fading dream.
The notes were old as bones beneath the ocean,
Yet every sound was new to me.
I followed shadows through forgotten places,
Through empty halls where nameless echoes sleep.
And every time I thought I'd found the answer,
The truth sank further out of reach.
[Pre-Chorus — building]
Was it a dream I left behind?
A distant life inside my mind?
A voice that waited through the years
To rise again when I was here?
[Chorus — open, melodic, powerful]
I hear the song before the silence,
I feel the fire before the flame.
Something is calling from the distance,
But nothing ever speaks its name.
Am I remembering tomorrow?
Am I awakening from the past?
I chase the sound across forever,
A moment never meant to last.
[Instrumental Passage — guitar / gradual build]
(Let the guitar carry the melody. Begin with space and sustain; let the rhythm and intensity grow.)
[Verse II — darker, more intense]
The walls dissolve, the ceiling opens,
The stars are falling through the floor.
I see a thousand different versions
Of the man I was before.
Each one is reaching out to touch me,
Each one has something left to say.
But when I turn to face the stranger,
He wears my eyes and fades away.
[Pre-Chorus II — stronger]
Was I the dreamer or the dream?
The hidden hand, the broken string?
And if this sound has always been,
Then where does memory begin?
[Chorus II — full band]
I hear the song before the silence,
I feel the fire before the flame.
Something is calling from the distance,
But nothing ever speaks its name.
Am I remembering tomorrow?
Am I awakening from the past?
I chase the sound across forever,
A moment never meant to last.
[Bridge — half-time, intimate]
Perhaps the song was never lost.
Perhaps it never once was mine.
Perhaps I've only found the doorway
Where the end gives birth to time.
And all the roads that led me here,
And every face I thought I'd known,
Were just the echoes of a question
That I was never meant to own.
[Build — gradually rising]
I hear it now...
Beneath my breathing.
I feel it move...
Beyond my skin.
The years fall down...
The walls are leaving.
And something ancient
Stirs within...
I KNOW THIS SONG!
(Band hits. Brief silence.)
[Finale — cathartic, soaring]
I AM THE SONG BEFORE THE SILENCE!
I AM THE FIRE WITHOUT A FLAME!
I AM THE VOICE THAT CROSSED THE AGES!
I AM THE QUESTION WITH NO NAME!
I WAS THE DREAM AND THE DREAMER!
I WAS THE DOOR AND THE KEY!
I WAS THE SOUND THAT I WAS CHASING!
THE SONG WAS ALWAYS PART OF ME!
[Final Refrain — repeat, increasingly intense]
THE SONG WAS ALWAYS PART OF ME!
THE SONG WAS ALWAYS PART OF ME!
(Repeat the final line as the band reaches its peak. Let the vocals become raw and urgent, then leave room for the instruments to carry the final release.)
[Outro — stripped back, almost whispered]
Somewhere beneath the silence,
The last note drifts away.
I know this song.
I always did.
But I don't know
What woke today.
[Outro]
