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The Star Chapter: SANCTUARY

Over The Moon

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Glad You’re Here

Not Enough for You

already dead

Always My Fault

Always By My Side

Built from the Fire

[Title: NIGHT RIDER – GoolZan]

[Intro]

City hum on my skin, headlights like prayers
I learned to outrun pain on midnight stairs
[pause]
I ain’t lookin’ for heaven—just clean air

[Verse 1]

Rent due, heart blue, one eye on the clock
Burner phone buzzin’, I ghost every block
Mama said “slow,” but the world don’t stop
Trauma in the rearview, teeth on the lock

Chrome-lip dreams, but the past got teeth
I stitch up the night just to try and breathe
If love is a toll, I paid with a sleeve
Scars spell maps that you wouldn’t believe

Gas on my sins, neon on my tongue
Shadow on the dash say “where you from?”
I floor the ache till the silence hums
Blacktop prayers, I don’t play numb

[Pre-Chorus]

I been runnin’ from a version of me
Shadow in the glass say “let it be”
I press down harder, hear the engine speak
[rise]
If the light turn red, I still chase the streak

[Chorus]

I’m a Night Rider, 200 miles? per hour.
Neon on my tongue, pain turnin’ into power
Devils in the lane, try to keep me sour
I kiss the dark—watch the fear devour
I’m a Night Rider, 200 miles? per hour.
City on my back, fate on the counter
Pray with the gas, talk to the tower
If I don’t make dawn, tell the night I’m louder

[Post-Chorus]

Ride… ride… ride…
I burn, then bloom on the other side

[Verse 2]

Blackout curtains, insomnia tax
I learned how to dance with a panic attack
Short breath, long road, truth in the cracks
Every “never” I broke like glass

Mind like a highway—lanes on fire
You call it reckless, I call it choir
Every bad memory, cheap barbed wire
I turn ’em to smoke in a midnight tire

Quiet in the cab, windows low
Knuckles on the wheel, let the bruise go
If dawn don’t answer, I ride solo
Name in the fog where the ghosts slow

[Pre-Chorus]
[filter]
If I stall, I fall—so I keep it in gear
Hope in the dash, ghosts in the mirror
I ain’t what I was, but I’m still right here
[rise]
Streetlights crown me when I disappear

[Chorus]

I’m a Night Rider, 200 miles? per hour.
Neon on my tongue, pain turnin’ into power
Devils in the lane, try to keep me sour
I kiss the dark—watch the fear devour
I’m a Night Rider, 200 miles? per hour.
City on my back, fate on the counter
Pray with the gas, talk to the tower
If I don’t make dawn, tell the night I’m louder

[Bridge]

I ain’t runnin’ from love—I’m runnin’ to breath
I ain’t scared of the fall—just scared of regret
If the past show teeth, then I bare my neck
[glitch]
Break… then build… that’s the dialect



[Final Chorus]

I’m a Night Rider, 200 miles? per hour.
If the pain want smoke, I bring it a flower
Turn my wounds to ink, sign my power
I don’t beg light—I make it shower
I’m a Night Rider, 200 miles? per hour.
City on my pulse, fate on the counter
Edge of the dawn, I refuse to cower
If I don’t see sun, I still tower

[Outro]

Sirens to silence, breath gets clean
Night gave me claws, day gave me steam
If you hear my name in the neon hour—
Tell ’em I rode through the fear… and devoured
[tapestop]

Always My Fault

Andrew Ashley

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