[Part 1 — Quiet, Introspective]
Darkness kills the lights,
Darkness inside your eyes,
Hopeless makes me cry.
Hopeless — I want my soul to fly,
So low, low.
Your heart colder than snow,
I can't find the end of this pain,
All these memories making me insane.
Give a second chance, maybe I will find the right way,
Every night I remember how your voice sounds — how it broke me down.
My mind sings slow, draws memories like smoke,
The smile hides the pain; there are nights I feel so broke.
I try to find something to make it right,
But all the things around me feel fake in the light.
I could be the flame, but I'm not the same,
Time and time I think about the name — I try to be fine but I cross the line.
[Pre-Chorus]
Soft Rhodes hold the hollow, heartbeat like a tide,
A whisper in the dark says let go — I turn and fight.
Stay — wait one more day, let the room breathe and bend.
[Chorus — Motif]
Darkness kills the lights,
Darkness in your eyes,
Hopeless makes me cry.
Still I want my soul to fly.
[Part 2 — Harder Groove, R&B Funk Influence]
Hopeless, yes I started to cry,
Dark whispers pull me close, telling me to lie.
But I push back through the bass, through the wah and the grit,
Heart drums like a subway — stomp, snap, don't quit.
Feel the weight of the night, shadows creeping in tight,
But my steps find a rhythm, a stubborn kind of light.
Pain runs under the melody; the groove keeps me alive,
Lost in rhythm, still I fight to survive.
Raise your head, fight the fall — hear the call in the break,
From silence into flame, from ashes we reclaim.
Together finding strength, we learn to say the name,
Break through the pain, we'll never be the same.
[Pre-Chorus II — Build]
Call-and-response: "Don't go" — "I stay" — "Hold on" — "I stay"
Rhythms tighten like a fist, then open into day.
A breath, a beat, then the chorus comes again.
[Chorus — Variation]
Darkness kills the lights,
Darkness in your eyes,
Hopeless makes me cry.
Still I want my soul to fly — so low, low.
[Bridge]
Bass drops to the bones; wah guitar scratches truth,
We barter broken keepsakes for mercy, for proof.
No sudden sunrise yet — just the promise of a line,
That maybe, after this night, dawn learns how to find.
Stay — wait one more day, and let the hurt untangle,
Even when the world is small, the heart remains a candle.
[Final Chorus — Layered]
Darkness kills the lights,
Darkness in your eyes,
Hopeless makes me cry.
Still I want my soul to fly — higher now.
[Outro — Tentative Hope]
Darkness kills the lights,
But inside your soul there's a fight.
Hopeless tears may stream tonight,
Dawn waits — I’ll keep the fight.
