Giyuu•́︿•̀

[Intro]
A paper door breathes in the winter air
Your name is folded underneath the prayer

[Verse 1]
I keep your ribbon in the drawer below
Where all the things I cannot burn still go
The ink has bled across the final vow
I said I’d leave, but I am kneeling now

[Pre-Chorus]
If mercy has a face, it looks like you
If love is sin, then tell me what to do

[Chorus]
I would wear the blame like a wedding thread
Lay my living heart beside your dead
When the temple bells refuse our names
I’ll walk through ash and carry all the shame
You don’t have to promise you’ll be mine
Just let me lose myself one final time

[Verse 2]
Your mother’s lantern fades beyond the gate
The plum tree drops its petals far too late
I hear the floorboards count each stolen breath
A house can teach a man the shape of death

[Pre-Chorus]
I built a wall to keep my hands from you
Now every stone remembers what we knew

[Chorus]
I would wear the blame like a wedding thread
Lay my living heart beside your dead
When the temple bells refuse our names
I’ll walk through ash and carry all the shame
You don’t have to promise you’ll be mine
Just let me lose myself one final time

[Bridge]
If I cut the cord, will the silence heal?
If I stay beside you, will the wound become real?
I am afraid of the man you see
The coward who calls sacrifice destiny

[Final Chorus]
I will wear the blame like a wedding thread
Lay my living heart beside your bed
Let the iron bells remember our names
Let the rain erase the borders and the shame
You don’t have to promise you’ll be mine
I’ll guard the door until the end of time
And when the last red lantern disappears
I’ll love you through the silence of my fear

[Outro]
A paper door closes on the winter air
Your ribbon sleeps beneath the final prayer

dark alternative rock with Japanese gothic influences, 76 BPM, minor-key haunting piano motif, low distorted electric guitar entering gradually, deep sustained bass, eerie chamber strings, subtle shakuhachi and koto accents used sparingly, tense toms and restrained percussion, intimate close-miked male baritone vocals in the verses rising into a dramatic emotionally cracked chorus, dynamic arrangement from sparse piano-and-voice openings to dense guitars and strings, wide cinematic chorus, restrained plate reverb, dark warm low mids, clear vocal-forward mix, mysterious tragic atmosphere