Brimstone & Dawn (Extended 2)

Spoken Intro - whispered, slow, building intensity

How could you be so unbelievably vile

Is there really no rest for you

You just had to fuck with me

What the fuck is your problem

Have I done something so unbearably hateful

That you feel the absolute necessity

To sabotage my life and what I got going on

Somebody else fucked you up royally

So your problem is with them

Not me

So if you could do me the greatest of favors

And stop

That would be great

I really don't like being harsh

But I can't think of anything else I can do

To get you to stop trying to ruin me

For anybody else

Please and thank you so much

Oh and by the way

This is for all of those involved

That is all

Verse 1

Midnight creeping through my phone screen

Your venom drips through every message

Jealousy a perfume you wear so clean

But I see through that fragile flesh

You picked a target on my back yourself

Projecting every wound you never healed

I ain't your therapist or your punching bag

So take that twisted rage and keep it sealed

Pre-Chorus

I'm not the ghost you're chasing in the dark

I'm not the one who left those permanent marks

So aim your arrows somewhere else tonight

Before I show you what real darkness bites

Chorus

You wanna play with fire come and taste the brimstone

I'll show you what it means to reap what you've sown

Every snake you sent my way I broke their fangs

Now I'm dancing in the wreckage of your games

Fuck around and find out that's the rule

I was born in shadows now I own the whole damn night

Verse 2

Saw you through the haze of broken trust

Your whispers turned to knives without a sound

But I've been walking through the mud and rust

And I know what grows from poisoned ground

You think your little schemes could break my spine

I've rebuilt myself from fire too many times

So keep on digging deeper let me see

Just how far your bitter heart can sink in me

Pre-Chorus

I'm not the ghost you're chasing in the dark

I'm not the one who left those permanent marks

So aim your arrows somewhere else tonight

Before I show you what real darkness bites

Chorus

You wanna play with fire come and taste the brimstone

I'll show you what it means to reap what you've sown

Every snake you sent my way I broke their fangs

Now I'm dancing in the wreckage of your games

Fuck around and find out that's the rule

I was born in shadows now I own the whole damn night

Bridge - spoken-sung, vulnerable, slowing

You know what hurts the most

Is not the war you brought

But that you never once looked in my face

And saw a person

Just a target

Just a name

I woulda held your hand through the lowest low

If you had let me

But you chose the blade instead

Drop - trap/soul beat intensifies

Breathing heavy in the dark

Breathing heavy in the dark

Breathing heavy

Breathing heavy

Let it go let it go let it go

Chorus - stripped back, then building

You wanna play with fire come and taste the brimstone

I'll show you what it means to reap what you've sown

Every snake you sent my way I broke their fangs

Now I'm dancing in the wreckage of your games

Outro - spoken, healing, inspirational, slower

But here's the thing

I'm done carrying your weight

I'm setting down this anger

Letting it dissolve into the morning

You taught me something I didn't know I needed

That some people are storms

And you don't fight the storm

You board up your windows

You hold tight

And you let it pass

So I forgive you

Not because you deserve it

But because I deserve peace

And the night has finally given way to dawn

So go on and find somebody else to haunt

I've got a life to live

And it starts right now

Mm

Yeah

It starts right now

Verse 3

Now the silence got a different taste

Sweet like revenge marinated in patience

I let the night shift rearrange my face

Turned every wound into a constellation

You thought I'd wither when the worst came down

But I bloom where the venom used to drown

Every time you clipped my wings I learned to glide

Now I'm soaring through the wreckage of your pride

Hook

Let 'em talk let 'em talk

I'm too busy walking through the dark

Let 'em talk let 'em talk

I done turned their poison into art

Pre-Chorus

I'm not the ghost you're chasing in the dark

I'm not the one who left those permanent marks

So aim your arrows somewhere else tonight

Before I show you what real darkness bites

Chorus

You wanna play with fire come and taste the brimstone

I'll show you what it means to reap what you've sown

Every snake you sent my way I broke their fangs

Now I'm dancing in the wreckage of your games

Fuck around and find out that's the rule

I was born in shadows now I own the whole damn night

Verse 4 - darker, grittier

I heard you still rehearsing your lies at 3 AM

Practicing your victim speech in the bathroom light

But I ain't buying tickets to your tragic film

I seen the real you when you think nobody's right

You fed me to your ego like a sacrifice

Now my absence is the blade you get to slice

I hope the ghost of what you did comes knocking loud

I hope you choke on every word you fed the crowd

Bridge - sensual, whispered, slow burn

And if I ever let you back inside my veins

It'd be on my terms with my hands around the flame

You'd beg me soft and I'd make you say my name

Then watch you crumble while the midnight stays the same

Oh I ain't bitter baby I'm just finally free

The way you broke me just rebuilt me differently

Drop - trap/soul

Breathing heavy in the dark

Breathing heavy in the dark

Let it go let it go let it go

Let it go let it go let it go

Verse 5

I've been walking through the graveyard of your moods

Picking flowers off the thorns you left behind

Every scar a souvenir I turned to jewels

Now I shine in ways you'll never find

You wanted me to beg you for the crumbs you threw

But I was busy building palaces from residue

So keep your little games and your little crew

I've got bigger nights than what you ever knew

Chorus - full power

You wanna play with fire come and taste the brimstone

I'll show you what it means to reap what you've sown

Every snake you sent my way I broke their fangs

Now I'm dancing in the wreckage of your games

Fuck around and find out that's the rule

I was born in shadows now I own the whole damn night

Post-Chorus

Oh-oh-oh I own the night

Oh-oh-oh I own the night

Midnight running through my veins

Nothing left that you can take

Verse 6 - raw, explicit, gritty

I saw your name and didn't flinch today

That's growth I paid for with my sleepless nights

You used to be the wetness in my mouth

Now you're just a footnote in my appetite

I got somebody who likes the way I moan my truth

Who kisses all the places that you left uncouth

So thank you kindly for the lesson and the bruise

I turned your hate into my honey and my muse

Outro - spoken, inspirational, healing, slow

And if you're listening to this

Wherever you are

Whatever version of yourself you've become

I want you to know something

Hurt people hurt people

I know that now

I know you were drowning before you ever pushed me under

And I can't save you

I was never meant to

But I can stand in the shallows

And watch you find your own shore

That's the most love I have left to give you

It's not hate anymore

It's just distance

With a prayer for your healing

Because I finally understand

The people who tear others down

Are usually the ones who never learned

How to build themselves up

So go build yourself up

I mean that

I really do

And when you finally do the work

When you finally look in the mirror

And you see who you could have been

I hope you forgive yourself

The way I've forgiven you

The night's ending now

The stars are folding up their blankets

And I'm stepping into the morning

Whole

Alive

Unbothered

And finally

Finally

Mine

Mm

Yeah

That's all

That is all