Image 5:5 draw my lyrics as a story board. “
My lyrics “[Intro – spoken, low, hostile]
You named me before you knew me.
You judged me before I spoke.
That name stuck…
So I wore it.
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Verse 1
I walked into your circle already condemned
Eyes like scales, measuring the end
Every question loaded, every pause a test
You decided I was less
I felt it in the room, thick and quiet
Every breath said I shouldn’t try it
You didn’t hear a word I said
You heard the stories in your head
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Pre-Chorus
Folded arms, closed minds
You drew the line
And pushed me to the other side
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Chorus
YOU CALLED ME THE DARK CLOUD OF DOUBT
A NAME YOU COULDN’T SHAKE
YOU WROTE ME OFF
AS A MISTAKE
YOU CALLED ME THE DARK CLOUD OF DOUBT
LIKE I’D DRAG YOU DOWN
BUT I’M STILL HERE
AND I DIDN’T DROWN
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Verse 2
Years went by, I stayed in place
Showed my worth face to face
While you waited for me to fail
I held the line, I took the weight
I carried your daughter through real life
Through broken sleep and sharpened nights
While you watched from a distance safe
Still calling me the same old name
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Pre-Chorus 2
Every doubt you threw my way
Got carved into what I became
Not your version
Mine
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Chorus
YOU CALLED ME THE DARK CLOUD OF DOUBT
LIKE I WAS A THREAT
LIKE I’D RUIN EVERYTHING
YOU’D BUILT TO PROTECT
YOU CALLED ME THE DARK CLOUD OF DOUBT
BUT I HELD MY GROUND
I’M STILL HERE
AND I DIDN’T BOW
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Breakdown – slow, crushing, chantable
Say it again
Say my name
Say I don’t belong
Say I won’t remain
(half-time hit)
I.
AM.
STILL.
HERE.
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Bridge – restrained rage
Twenty-seven years
Under your stare
Every step forward
Proved you were scared
You mistook control for truth
And silence for proof
But time exposes lies
And I survived you
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Final Chorus – bigger, angrier
I AM THE DARK CLOUD OF DOUBT
THE NAME YOU GAVE TO ME
I CARRIED IT
AND MADE IT MEANING
I AM THE DARK CLOUD OF DOUBT
NOT YOUR REGRET
NOT YOUR SHAME
I OUTLASTED
EVERY WORD YOU SAID
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Outro – spoken, cold, final
You don’t get to rename me now.
You already tried.
I lived anyway.
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