[Intro]  
We were born with matching faces,  
But different fire behind the eyes.  
Two parts of one enchantment,  
Split by a dream and Mama’s cries.

[Verse 1 – Trick]  
I’m the grin behind the vanished coins,  
The whisper in the smoke and noise.  
I leap first, I light the fuse,  
I’m the chase you didn’t choose.

[Verse 2 – Treat]  
I’m the smile that seals the deal,  
The sugar laced with something real.  
I ain't the chase, I keep you near,  
With velvet words and velvet fear.

[Chorus]  
The sparks, the flare, we spin like sin,  
Laughin’ through trouble we’re already in.  
Same blood, same jaw, same wicked smile  
But we twist the world in a different style.  
Trick and Treat, gloam and dream,  
Two kinds of chaos, the same moonbeam.  
Like echoes grinning through the hall  
Just to dance,  
And have it all.

[Verse 3 – Trick]  
I draw the eyes, I set the scene,  
A spark in motion, sharp and keen.  
I spin the dare, ignite the show  
Then he's there, doubling our lively glow.

[Verse 4 – Treat]  
I keep the ones he caught with flair,  
A quiet pull, hypnotic snare.  
I turn his chaos into play  
And when he dims, I light the way.

[Chorus]  
Rhett: The sparks, the flare, we spin like sin,  
Kyle: He starts the Trick, I reel ‘em in.  
Rhett: Same face, same frame, same echoed beat  
Kyle: But he's still sweet, though I'm the Treat.  
Rhett: Trick and Treat, gloam and dream,  
Kyle: Two kinds of chaos, the same moonbeam.  
Both: Like echoes grinning through the hall  
Just to dance,  
And have it all.

[Outro]  
He’s the spell I never cast,  
The beat that always answers back.  
But if he breaks, I break too  
And I’d steal the stars just to pull him through.  
Same laugh, same bones, same stubborn ache  
But only together do we never break.  
Like echoes grinning through the hall  
Two sides of mischief
Never destined to fall.

Split By A Dream

[Verse 1]  
I remember trophies I never earned,  
Medals that don’t exist,  
Voices that once said “We’re proud”  
Just ask again if I’ll be missed.  
They know my name, they know my face,  
But not the honor that I chased.  
The world forgot my footprints,  
But I still feel them in this place.

[Chorus]  
I’m the echo of a name,  
The shadow of a flame.  
I gave up who I was  
To keep the world the same.  
But I still live,  
I still breathe,  
I still ache to be found  
A man gone like the dead,  
Yet I am still around.

[Verse 2]  
I wonder if it mattered  
The quiet, the fade, the cost.  
If trading myself for their safety  
Was worth everything I lost.  
But I’d do it again, no hesitation, no sweat,  
For every soul that I love, and those I've not met yet.  
I’d give all I have,  
Still I must walk through it all.

[Bridge]  
Do they dream of me and not know why?  
Does something stir when they pass me by?  
I reach through fog they never see,  
Still hoping someone remembers me.  
Not for glory, not for name  
But for the fire I couldn’t tame.  
I gave it all, I still remain  
Unseen, unheard, but not in vain.

[Final Chorus]  
I’m the echo of a name,  
The shadow of a flame.  
I gave up the light  
That once bore my name.  
But I still live,  
I still breathe,  
I still ache to be found  
A man gone like the dead,  
Yet I am still around.

Residual

[Verse 1]  
He’ll crack a smile like he’s heard it all,  
Talks big talk with no fear of a fall.  
Too young to be this hard to read,  
But there’s reality stitched in every deed.
Wears the world like a coat just right,  
Spins a yarn, then ends it tight.  
Moves like someone who owns the land,  
Even when he don’t lift a hand.
[Chorus]  
They call him smooth, they call him slick,  
Got a voice that rolls and a wit that sticks.  
Boys his age are known to bluff,  
But he makes you laugh, and that’s enough.  
You see his grin with a trust unearned,  
While he calls the game when it’s your turn.
[Verse 2]  
He said he knew a man out west  
Though he ain't crossed the Mississip’ yet.  
Caught the slip, but let it slide,  
'Cause even his lies shine with our own pride.
You watch his tales like cards get dealt,  
He folds the truth in what you felt.
[Bridge]  
He don’t play soft, he plays amused,  
Like the world’s a puzzle he’s barely used.  
Truth’s just a coin he flips for fun,  
Heads you lost, tails he’s won.
He sees the script, then writes his own  
And laughs like he carved it into stone.
[Final Chorus]
He moves like stories start from him,  
Shoulders sit strong for his and our kin.  
A whisper thick in every town,  
He don’t slow up, he don’t sit down.  
The name sticks longer than the man,  
Like the dust still spinning where he ran.

The Game He Plays

[Verse 1]
I slipped through cracks the void forgot  
Where orange bled into soil rot  
The clouds wore teeth in idle rows  
They hummed in tones that no one knows
The sky was brown, the wind turned black  
The shapes spoke through electric crack  
I touched the glyphs they carved in bone  
And learned their truth, but not my own

[Verse 2]
They dressed in cloth that bled and smiled  
They called me “guest” but watched me wild  
No blades, no chains, no cursed decree  
Just riddles stitched in agony
I slept in slime, or maybe thought  
My dreams were sold, my silence bought  
The Codex pulsed where no books should  
Its words leaked ink that cursed my blood

[Pre-Chorus]
Did I escape, or was I freed?  
Did madness crack, or darkness plead?  
The gate dissolved, no reason why  
I woke beneath a static sky

[Chorus]
I made it back, but not untouched  
A twitch, low hum, but nothing much  
The slime still sings beneath my skin  
But I just stretch, call that a win
They say I walked through haunted halls  
I say, “Yeah, sure,” but missed the brawls  
Don’t ask me how, I never fell  
Did I survive? I must’ve, hell.

[Verse 3]
I speak of them, the slime-cursed cult  
They see the man, but not my fault  
My shadow limps where guilt should run  
Echoes answering to no one
They ask of knowledge, what I learned  
I shrug, it’s weird, but I ain't burned  
I touch the world, accursed spells  
And dream in glyphs from all nine hells

[Bridge]
I passed their gates, but not the trial  
I wear their script beneath my smile  
I scribe their glyphs, chanting their spell  
Am I yet free... or bound for hell?

[Final Chorus]
I made it back, the door was there  
No lightning crash, no devil's glare  
Just static skies and slime-slick ground  
No trumpet call, no verdict sound
I feel an ache behind my lights  
Some twisted script the Codex writes  
But I’m still me, or close enough  
Did I survive? Yeah I must’ve.

Did I Survive? I Must've

[Verse 1]  
They cross my path with half-formed grace,  
Still rough with youth, still bright with chase.  
They speak like winds I still entice  
With storms and calms rolling the dice.  
I don’t ask why. I know the feel  
Like boots I've worn, like truths I'd steal.

[Verse 2]  
They move like currents hushed and wide,  
A storm that sings, no lies to hide.  
One drifts in words the wind once tossed,  
One echoes in songs the tides have lost.  
They shift, they watch, they bend, they know  
Like weather I forgot to show.

[Verse 3]  
He still resides beneath my skin  
And now he watches them a-grin.  
He leans too close to where they drift,  
A hand outstretched, an offered gift.  
He knows the weight they’ve yet to name,  
And waits to offer strength as claim.

[Verse 4]  
They don’t feel him like I do  
The ache, the scars, the brutal truth.  
He flirts, he offers soft control  
Never quite wraps around their soul.  
They’ve made their paths, they glow so bright  
But, I wasn’t there to teach them right.

[Verse 5]  
One grew in waters close to mine  
Where silence wrapped and rage aligned.  
One crossed from winds I barely knew,  
Born chasing roads I wandered through.  
In both I see enflickered light—  
The strength of will, but need to fight.

[Verse 6]  
I never held what either claim  
No gust to wield, no sea to tame.  
It came through pain, cruelty manned,  
Where scars run deep among the damned.  
I drink with shadows, but walk with Light  
Against the Dark I learned to fight.

[Outro]  
I have shadows in my past,
And two stand before me here,  
Reflections of a man I was... still am.  
I guess I'll have to reign the Darkness,
I must keep him near.

Shadows of a Man

[Verse 1]
He blinked, then stilled, no breath, no sound,  
The air grew thick, the ghosts unbound.  
His eyes lit cold with haunted flare,  
And every trap snapped to his stare.

[Verse 2]
No chant, no wand, no sacred rite,  
Just silence wrapped in spectral might.  
The walls bent in, the spirits screamed,  
He moved like wrath inside a dream.

[Chorus]
He’s not the man I knew before,  
He walks the edge of myth and war.  
The veil itself begins to bend,  
As shadows gather, break, and send.  
I called his name, but he stayed far  
Lost inside what spirits are.

[Verse 3]
I saw the light, I saw the rot,  
Two halves of him in silent plot.  
The good, the cursed, an unseen hand,  
They fight for reign beneath his stand.

[Bridge]
He’d split the wraith, torn it to shreds  
And cast its threads to realms undead.  
Then just as swift, the storm was gone,  
His hand still cold from what was drawn.

[Final Chorus]
He’s not the man I knew before,  
But still I stand, and still adore.  
The shadows heed his silent sway,  
But he walks home another way.  
I hold the truth, I bear the scar  
I saw him rule what spirits are.

The Ghostmaster

[Verse 1]
He walks with pride carved into bone  
Won’t ask for help, won’t borrow tone  
His path is crooked, sure, but true  
He’ll cut the way, not follow you

[Verse 2]
He sees the world in signs and smells  
Knows when wind shifts, when silence tells  
Stares you down with wolfish calm  
No shout, no snarl, just steady qualm

[Chorus]
Cut sharply the path ahead  
Don’t wait for signs, don’t ask what’s said  
He won’t beg, won’t fold, won’t plead  
And he’ll fight when instinct leads  
A whisper carved into the trees  
The man who won’t stay, but never leaves

[Bridge]
He’s not loud, not cruel, not tame  
But bold enough to brave the flame  
He moves before the moment calls  
Too wild to wait, too proud to fall

[Final Chorus]
Cut sharply the path ahead  
He’ll speak when the moment’s dead  
Not luck or fate, just his wit  
But built from instinct, will, and grit  
A shape in motion, half unread  
Still carving through what others dread

Cut Sharply the Path Ahead

[Verse 1]  
I knew the weight of wire and flame,  
A steady hand, no need for fame.  
I died in dust, no final stand  
Just wreckage sparked by my own hand.  
The blast was mine, and mine to bear  
No hymns, no stars, just smoke and prayer.  
But something reached beyond the zone,  
And stitched me back from ash and bone.

[Verse 2]  
I wore the badge, I walked the beat,  
Kept ghosts from knocking on your street.  
But fire crept in through every case,  
And burned the name behind my face.  
I kept the law, but lost the thread  
Of a past I can't now retread.

[Verse 3]  
He rose in flame, not born, but cast  
No warmth to give, no love to last.  
He hunted threats in silence grim  
The man beneath? A silent hymn.  
He lied to those who knew me best:  
“This man is dead.” Time only for his quest.  
The hound is gone, but I remain:  
A man's shade bound in feral frame.

[Verse 4]  
I am what’s left when past is dust,  
A name survives, but only just.  
It once wore stars and stripes with pride,  
Now flickers low, just set aside.  
The fire did more than mark my skin  
It burned the man I might've been.  
I guard the gate and walk the line  
Not man or myth, but both entwined.

[Outro]  
I walk where shadows split and veer,  
Not bound by fame, glory, nor fear.  
The hound is gone, the man has passed  
Yet something formed that still will last.  
I move between what eyes can’t see,  
A sentinel for powers that be.  
No throne, no chain, just a man retold  
Boots on roads where truths unfold.  
I keep the veil from slipping wide,  
The worlds apart, yet side by side.  
And if you glimpse me through the haze  
Be still. I’m not for mortal praise.

A Hero Reforged

[Intro]
No sirens sound when he appears  
Just quieted footsteps when he nears 

[Verse 1]
He won’t raise fists to prove a point  
Bone-white calm in every joint  
He walks the streets, they watch their tone  
Bad guys blink and stand alone

[Verse 2]
His shadow’s louder than his shout  
His form does most the throwing out  
He don’t need noise to mark the lines  
He just steps close and redefines

[Chorus]
He needs say nothing, they feel the weight  
Of silence forged in armor’s grace  
Don’t need war to make you flinch  
Just truth you see before the pinch  
He fights when pushed, not when he's bored  
A peacekeeper who won't be ignored

[Bridge]
White, not venom, trained to heal  
He's the quiet edge of steel  
They want chaos, he brings pause  
Not a monster, just the cause

[Final Chorus]
He stays quiet, not out of fear  
But from the code he holds sincere  
White doesn't burn, it clears the way  
And only strikes when none obey

[Outro]
No sirens sound when he appears  
Just quieted footsteps when he nears

The White One

[Verse 1]
I ain’t the kind to raise my voice  
I let the silence make the choice  
Folks talk loud, but I just smile  
Been walkin’ soft for quite a while

[Verse 2]
Got a knack for slippin’ through  
The cracks they never thought I knew  
I ain’t brave, I ain’t bold  
But I’ve got stories never told

[Chorus]
Easy on the fade, I go  
Like moonlight on a country road  
I don’t fight, not with glee  
I just move how I need to be  
Easy on the fade, that’s me  
A whisper in the melody

[Verse 3]
They say I’m pretty, say I’m soft  
But I’ve held ground when others lost  
I don’t need to prove a thing  
I just let the quiet sing

[Bridge]
I’ve loved in places no one sees  
In shadows, in the mountain breeze  
I’ve run, I’ve stayed, I’ve learned to bend  
And still come back around again

[Final Chorus]
Easy on the fade, I go  
Like stories only rivers know  
I don’t fight, not with glee  
I just move how I need to be  
Easy on the fade, that’s me  
A whisper in the melody

[Outro]
They say I’m pretty, say I’m soft  
But I’ve held ground when others lost  
I don’t need to prove a thing  
I just move how I need to be  
Easy on the fade, that’s me  
A whisper in the melody

Easy On The Fade

[Verse 1]
On the streets, an anger high
He only knew then how to try
But one day stumbled through the Veil
Pushed himself beyond the pale

[Verse 2]
They found him naked in the field
He tried to fight them, had to yield
Then they clothed him, armed him too
Taught him then what he must do

[Chorus]
They thought him Lost
But he was found
Knew not the cost
But he was bound
He fit right in
First time he dealt
Showed off his grin
The pain he felt

[Verse 3]
He traveled through as if by ploy
Echo-born they named the boy
Memories and nightmare scenes
The Echoed lands' monstrosities

[Verse 4]
Took to the hunt, a natural
As if by birth, an inborn pull
But no hunter, he claimed to be
The bar for him the place to see

[Chorus]
They thought him Lost
But he was found
Knew not the cost
But he was bound
He fit right in
First time he dealt
Showed off his grin
The pain he felt

[Outro]
Among The Lost, the boy now grown
From outside in, from flesh to bone
His fate for good or if for ill
The boy, now man, was Found in Lostville

Found In Lostville

Dixie Chris

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