**(INTRO)**

I was born in the quiet shadows, built beside the light…

But silence grows its teeth, and darkness learns to bite.

A name forgotten, a shape they fear—

I am the whisper in the halls that says “I’m still here.”

**(VERSE 1)**

Once I walked with brothers, with friends I tried to keep,

But the world turned hollow when secrets cut too deep.

I stayed alone to stop the cracks from crawling through my mind,

Yet every echo of their laughter said “you’re falling behind.”

And when the horrors started rising from the things we never said,

I kept pretending I was heartless while my heart was turning red.

I never wanted to be chosen, never asked to wear the crown,

But when the night demanded power… I refused to stay down.

**(PRE-CHORUS 1)**

I tried to hold the line, I tried to be their shield,

But shadows leak through armor when old wounds never heal.

I swore I’d save them all, but the truth came for me first—

The hero that I tried to be became the curse.

**(CHORUS)**

So run from the monster I became,

From the nightmare carved into my name.

I rose to protect and I fell through the flame—

Now I stand in the dark where no one can blame.

You either die a hero bright and clean…

Or live long enough to see the fear you bring.

I tried to be the one who stopped the pain—

But the nightmare is all that remains.

**(VERSE 2)**

Location after location, wearing faces not my own,

A puppet bound in shadows while she called herself my throne.

Serving fear to stop a fear was the lie that kept me chained,

And every silent step I took left another soul restrained.

They called me traitor, called me villain, called me every broken thing—

But none of them could hear the truth the way my memories sting.

I fought the darkness in their eyes by letting mine take shape…

Not knowing I’d become the very thing I tried to escape.

**(PRE-CHORUS 2)**

I saw my sins reflected back in every shadowed stare,

And felt my past unwrap itself when he returned from nowhere.

The truth was sharper than the claws they thought defined my form—

The storm I feared would rise… had lived in me all along.

**(CHORUS)**

So run from the monster I became,

From the nightmare carved into my name.

I rose to protect and I fell through the flame—

Now I stand in the dark where no one can blame.

You either die a hero bright and clean…

Or live long enough to see the fear you bring.

I tried to be the one who stopped the pain—

But the nightmare is all that remains.

**(BRIDGE)**

I hear the truth collapse inside me,

A shatter in the steel I called my soul.

All the lies I carried finally strike me,

And every step I took feels out of my control.

I wasn’t fighting monsters…

I was running from the mirror in the mist.

And now the name I feared is whispered—

The Darkest Glitch. (The Darkest Glitch. . . The Darkest Glitch.. . .)

The weight of every choice is burning,

A fire made of everything I missed.

I tried to be the shield, but now I'm learning

I turned into the shadow I swore would never exist.

**(FINAL CHORUS)**

I am the shadow you remember,

I am the warning in the rain.

I am the last flame in December,

Burning hot with all my shame.

If a hero falls too many times,

The world will carve him into crimes—

But still I rise, despite the chains…

Because something of the light remains.

Run if you must, deny my name—

But I am Nightmare…

And I still change.

**(OUTRO)**

In the quiet after chaos, when the smoke has left the sky,

I’m not the beast they made me—just the one who couldn’t die.

A guardian twisted by fate’s cruel design…

But even nightmares fight

…to draw the line.