Malice Alice

Prelude - Vocal group harmonies

Footsteps fall like distant thunder

Every echo tangled in regret

Curtains breathe, a hush pulls under

Memories we can’t forget

Verse 1 - Duet

(First voice)

Lights flicker cold, morning full of questions

Tracing circles in my empty cup

(Second voice)

I remember laughter caught inside confession

But the silence came and swallowed it up

Chorus

She walks in, cracks the day with a stare

All the laughter hanging silent in the air

Every friend who tried to stay, faded out

She's a shadow when the hope runs out

Post-Chorus

Oh, oh, oh, oh (yeah)

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Verse 2 - Duet

(First voice)

She writes her name on every broken promise

She builds her throne on teardrops she collects

(Second voice)

I tried kindness, tried to lift her darkness

Instead I found the weight on my own neck

Pre-Chorus - Vocal group harmonies

Love is a flicker she swallows whole

Leaves an ache behind, a shape carved in stone

Chorus

She walks in, cracks the day with a stare

All the laughter hanging silent in the air

Every friend who tried to stay, faded out

She's a shadow when the hope runs out

Post-Chorus

Oh, oh, oh, oh (yeah)

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Guitar Solo with soaring string arrangements

Verse 3 - Duet

(First voice)

Every mirror bends her twisted reflection

A ghost of joy slipping through her hands

(Second voice)

We replay the scene, but there's no correction

You can't find tomorrow in these shifting sands

Chorus

She walks in, cracks the day with a stare

All the laughter hanging silent in the air

Every friend who tried to stay, faded out

She's a shadow when the hope runs out

Post-Chorus

Oh, oh, oh, oh (yeah)

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Bridge - Duet

(First voice)

That hallway's cold, every promise echoes longer

Turned to strangers in the corners of the room

(Second voice)

Couldn’t save her, couldn’t make me stronger

Now I’m singing loss beneath the same pale moon

Vocal group harmony

If forgiveness waits, it’s hiding in the silence

Lost in the stories that nobody tells

Chorus

She walks in, cracks the day with a stare

All the laughter hanging silent in the air

Every friend who tried to stay, faded out

She's a shadow when the hope runs out

Post-Chorus

Oh, oh, oh, oh (yeah)

Oh, oh, oh, oh

Outro - Vocal group harmonies

Shadows scatter, old regrets on the ceiling

Silent faces drifting out of view

We carry on, still tied to the feeling

But there's sunlight beyond these rooms

Oh, oh, lost and found, breaking through

Oh, oh, letting go of you