Afterimage

Intro – Atmospheric clean vocals, soft electronics

I still see your face…

Even when I close my eyes…

Verse 1 – Melodic clean vocals

These neon lights are bleeding through my veins

Every shadow wears the shape of your name

I deleted every trace but the ghost remains

Like a photograph that’s burned into my brain

I swore I’d let you go, but I’m still chained

To the way you smiled while driving me insane

Now I’m talking to the empty side of the bed

Pretending that you never left

Pre-Chorus – Building with layered harmonies

The brighter you were, the darker I became

Now I’m blind but I still see your flame

Chorus – Huge catchy pop-metalcore hook, anthemic

You’re just an AFTERIMAGE! Burning in my sight

A flash of heaven in this endless night

I blink, I scream, I pray for it to fade

But you’re engraved behind my eyelids like a blade

Afterimage! Afterimage!

You’re gone… but you won’t die

I hate that I still love this pain sometimes

Verse 2 – Heavier, half-sung/half-screamed

I keep chasing dopamine in crowded rooms

Looking for your high inside someone new

But they all taste like nothing next to you

God, I fucking hate what you turned me into

Every “I’m fine” is a beautiful lie

Every “never again” dies by midnight

Pre-Chorus 2

The light is gone but the burn stays on

I’m a slave to the moment you switched off

Chorus – Bigger, with gang vocals

You’re just an AFTERIMAGE! Burning in my sight

A flash of heaven in this endless night

I blink, I scream, I pray for it to fade

But you’re engraved behind my eyelids like a blade

Afterimage! Afterimage!

You’re gone… but you won’t die

I hate that I still love this pain sometimes

Bridge – Soft clean → intense build

Tell me… how do I erase a soul?

How do I kill a feeling I can’t hold?

I’d rather feel you killing me

Than live in a world where you don’t exist in me…

Breakdown – Heavy screamed, low-tuned chugs

GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY HEAD!

I’d rather be numb, I’d rather be dead!

Every memory is a razor in my chest

I’M BLEEDING OUT BUT I’M STILL OBSESSED!

Afterimage! Tear through my mind!

Leave me blind! Leave me blind!

Final Chorus – Explosive, clean lead vocals with screamed backing layers

You’re just an AFTERIMAGE! (AFTERIMAGE!)

Carved in my eyes for the rest of my life

I’d give anything to see you one more time

Even if it kills me, even if it kills me

Afterimage! Afterimage!

You destroyed me… but you’re still beautiful

Outro – Atmospheric clean, fading reverb

I still see your face…

Even when I close my eyes…

(And I don’t want to open them again)