Is This What You Wanted!?

Lyrics

[Intro - Distant reverb, slow tom hits, ominous guitar feedback, snarled vocals]
Is this what you wanted?
Is this what you came for?
A crown made of ashes,
A door with no floor?

[Verse 1 - Gritty blue rock riff, heavy distortion, driving drums, tense low vocals]
You lit the match in my ribcage,
Then you watched the room go red,
You fed me truth like poison,
Now it’s crawling through my head.
I heard your laughter in the thunder,
Saw your shadow in the flame,
You said, “Be a better monster,”
Then you called me by your shame.

[Pre-Chorus - Rising tension, stacked harmonies, crashing cymbals, raw shouted lead]
Tell me now, don’t blink, don’t hide,
Was I your wound or your alibi?
Did you build this hell with careful hands,
Just to watch me lose my mind?

[Chorus - Explosive, anthemic, full distortion, gang vocals, screaming edge]
Is this what you wanted?
A knife in the dark?
Is this what you wanted?
A spark in the heart?
You tore me open, left me roaring,
Left me broken, left me haunted,
So tell me, tell me through the noise—
IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?

[Verse 2 - Darker groove, sludgy bass, echo-soaked lead guitar, venomous vocals]
I wore your lies like leather,
I wore your guilt like chains,
I dragged your name through the mud
Just to feel my own veins.
Now the mirrors all are laughing,
Now the walls begin to sweat,
Every step I took toward freedom
Was a step I won’t forget.

[Pre-Chorus - Building chaos, tom rolls, layered screams, guitar squeal]
Tell me now, don’t turn away,
Who was the ghost you made me play?
Did you feed the fire, fan the smoke,
Then call it fate when it got wild?

[Chorus - Bigger, meaner, doubled vocals, thunderous drums, feral power]
Is this what you wanted?
A knife in the dark?
Is this what you wanted?
A spark in the heart?
You tore me open, left me roaring,
Left me broken, left me haunted,
So tell me, tell me through the noise—
IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?

[Bridge - Stripped back, echoing clean guitar, cavernous reverb, tortured spoken-sung vocal]
I can hear you in my pulse now,
Like a curse beneath my skin,
If I burn, then you burn with me—
Let the reckoning begin.
No more kneeling in the ruins,
No more begging for the truth,
I am not the shape you carved out,
I am the echo coming loose.

[Final Chorus - Full-throttle, crashing cymbals, distorted bass, screamed harmonies, chaotic lead guitar]
Is this what you wanted?
A knife in the dark?
Is this what you wanted?
A spark in the heart?
You tore me open, left me roaring,
Left me broken, left me haunted,
Now I’m screaming through the fallout—
IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED?

[Outro - Fading distortion, ringing feedback, distant toms, exhausted rasp]
Is this what you wanted?
Tell me...
Is this what you wanted?