TITLE : REQUIEM

VERSE 1

I will leave without a sound, without a trace,

Taking earthly dreams I couldn’t face.

All the plans I never dared to claim

Will fill the silence carved in my name.

I carry lists of what I failed to be,

Unfinished roads beneath my feet.

I lay them down inside the grave,

A hollow peace I never saved.

PRE-CHORUS

Was the journey ever mine to choose?

Or just a line I couldn’t lose?

CHORUS

When the bell rings slow and low,

Tell me — is this all we know?

If tomorrow fades away,

Does the self dissolve or stay?

If the body turns to dust,

Is the soul still something just?

In the dark, beyond the end,

Is this death — or what we bend?

VERSE 2

What were roads of flesh and time,

When the clock resigns its crime?

Where do questions go to rest

When answers never manifest?

Will we ever know the truth

When silence outlives our youth?

Each doubt rising like a wall,

Too many voices — none at all.

PRE-CHORUS 2

Does awareness slowly die?

Or does it shed another skin?

CHORUS (repeat, more melodic)

When the bell rings slow and low,

Tell me — is this all we know?

If tomorrow fades away,

Does the self dissolve or stay?

If the body turns to dust,

Is the soul still something just?

In the dark, beyond the end,

Is this death — or what we bend?

BRIDGE (quiet → build)

Low piano, strings rising

If reason breaks, if fear gives in,

If “I” does not collapse within…

Then maybe form is just a door,

And I am more than I was before.

FINAL CHORUS (big, emotional)

When the bell rings one last time,

Let it mark a deeper sign.

Not the end, not the decay,

Just another shape of “I”.

If this breath is not my last,

If the self can outlive the past,

Then I’ll rise from what I was —

Not the flesh…

But something just.

OUTRO