Echoes of the Four
Write a rock ballad using acoustic and electric guitar, violin, and drums. Illustrate how revenge, love, friends, and emotion are intertwined—highlight highs and lows using dynamic instrumental contrasts for mood shifts.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
You drew the lines in permanent ink
I crossed them out with gasoline
We called it loyalty
You called it something else
The city rewrites itself every night
We're walking through yesterday's architecture
Your mouth shapes words I already forgot
My hands remember different agreements
[Verse 2]
This started as protection
Became possession
Now it's just a series of rooms
We keep re-entering at different angles
You said friends don't keep score
But here we are
Counting exits, counting wounds
Counting the hours until morning changes the rules
[Chorus]
Burn the maps we made together
Watch them curl into new shapes
Love's a weapon, friendship's armor
Everything's a debt to pay
Burn the maps, rewrite the borders
Nothing stays where we left it
Revenge tastes like devotion
Can't tell them apart anymore
[Verse 3]
I wanted you closer
Got you inside my head instead
Now you're tearing through the walls
Looking for what I owe you
This knot of feeling
Pulls tighter when I try to name it
Affection, resentment, desire, rage
All the same frequency
[Bridge]
We could untangle this
Or pull it tighter
Make it mean something
Make it mean nothing
The low hums beneath the high
The crash follows the silence
I'm holding on and letting go
Same gesture, different intention
[Chorus]
Burn the maps we made together
Watch them curl into new shapes
Love's a weapon, friendship's armor
Everything's a debt to pay
Burn the maps, rewrite the borders
Nothing stays where we left it
Revenge tastes like devotion
Can't tell them apart anymore
[Outro]
You're in my throat
You're in my fists
You're everything I'm trying to keep
Everything I'm trying to kill