Do Not Judge Me

[Intro] (Slow, melancholic clean acoustic guitar picking) (Deep, gravelly, melodic baritone voice) Yeah. Listen. [Verse 1] (Clean acoustic guitar and a slow, heavy drum beat) I’ve stood on the mountain, I’ve touched the sun I’ve lived a life that you could never run But I’ve been to the bottom, I’ve walked through hell I've fought with demons that I’ll never tell You see the glory, but you missed the pain You weren't there standing in the freezing rain. [Pre-Chorus] (Distorted electric guitars start to palm-mute and chug) (Vocals get angrier and grittier) Now I hear the whispers. I see the stares. From a world full of strangers who were never there. So before you speak on what you think you know... [Chorus] (Heavy Drop! Massive distorted power chords, crashing cymbals) (Vocals explode into an aggressive, emotional roar) You don't have the right to judge my name! You couldn't survive a single day inside my pain! You don't know the scars I hide beneath! You don't know the wars I fought just to breathe! The real ones love me for exactly who I am! When the sky falls down, family is where I stand! Yeah! Family is where I stand! [Verse 2] (Music drops back down to just heavy bass and drums) (Vocals return to a deep, intense singing voice) When the crisis hit, the room went cold The fair-weather friends, they folded and sold Couldn't handle the fire, couldn't take the weight Left me out there dying right outside the gate But my blood stayed loyal. My circle stayed tight. We stood back-to-back right into the night. [Pre-Chorus] (Guitars start chugging again, building tension) Now I hear the whispers. I see the stares. From a world full of strangers who were never there. So before you speak on what you think you know... [Chorus] (Maximum Metal Energy, aggressive and melodic) You don't have the right to judge my name! You couldn't survive a single day inside my pain! You don't know the scars I hide beneath! You don't know the wars I fought just to breathe! The real ones love me for exactly who I am! When the sky falls down, family is where I stand! [Bridge] (Heavy, slow groove metal breakdown) (Vocals are rhythmic and venomous) Keep your rumors! Keep your lies! Look at the fire inside my eyes! I don't need you! I never did! You don't know the hell I hid! [Guitar Solo] (Screaming, emotional heavy metal guitar solo over double-kick drums) [Outro] (The heavy guitars abruptly stop. Just the clean acoustic guitar returns) (Vocals drop to a quiet, exhausted whisper) You have no right to judge. The right ones know the real me. Family. The only solid ground. (Final acoustic chord rings out and fades) [End]