This first release is a personal alt metal track carried by LYRA’s solo vocal performance, mixing clean emotional intensity with screams, heavy guitar, and lyrics rooted in anger, betrayal, and finally choosing distance over destruction. The song confronts someone manipulative and delusional, someone who survives on gaslighting, exploitation, attention, and the pain they leave behind. It moves through rage, grief, obsession, and the exhausting cycle of trying to bury someone in your mind who keeps coming back through memory. By the end, the only real victory is not revenge, but refusal: walking away, starving the chaos, and letting the ghost stay dead.
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It must be hard to be so delusional
Living in a paper world you create
Main character Energy in a story no one cares about
Leaving cancer in your wake
Go ahead and gaslight me, I'm holding a book of matches
Go ahead and lie to me, I'll smile and nod my head,
Go ahead and exploit me, I'll crumble to dust in your hands
Go ahead and scream to me, while I turn my back on you
The person you are, is the person I've created
How deceptive was the mirror you held,
I wanted to believe, so I believed
Letting go is hard, even though you never existed
FUCK!
You still have others fooled, that is the hardest part,
Watching you feed on my family, my friends,
I shut you out, for my own protection,
I'll be there, when they cast you out.
Go ahead and gaslight me, I'm holding a book of matches
Go ahead and lie to me, I see through all your bullshit,
Go ahead and exploit me, I'll crumble to dust in your hands
Go ahead and scream for attention, while I turn my back
I want to rip you apart!
Stomp you into the ground and salt the earth
White Knuckles, Gritted Teeth, It's More Than I Can Stand
In the end my rage just feeds you.
I've attended your funeral 100 times,
Each time I swear it's the last,
My mind refuses to understand,
What kind of creature you are,
I dig the earth with my bare hands,
To bury you deep into the ground,
Nails stained black with blood and soil,
They remind me to let you slumber,
Despite the great distance I stride,
Your grave is always right behind me,
Go ahead and gaslight me, I'm holding a book of matches
Go ahead and lie to me, I see through all your bullshit,
Go ahead and exploit me, I'll crumble to dust in your hands
Go ahead and scream for attention, while I turn my back
The only way to starve you, is to walk away...
Erase you in my mind, waste away...
My memories of you, thrown away...
STAY DEAD
