Name: Misunderstood by Ethereal Siren
Duration: 4 min 12 s
Description: “Misunderstood” is a raw, confessional song about being judged without being known. It gives voice to the quiet weight of labels, unseen scars, and the emotional toll of constantly having to explain your existence. At its heart, the song is a plea for empathy, and a reminder that behind every assumption is a human being still trying to heal.

Fading Silence is my first official album, released under the name **Paulo Oliveira**
with the independent label **PO&ElectronicBox**.

It is an intimate work, where every track reflects deep emotions and moments from my life.
This album is especially dedicated to my late wife, **Ana Cristina**, my greatest inspiration and life companion.
Every sound carries her memory, my love, and the silence that remains.

With influences from **Progressive Metal**, **Atmospheric Rock**, and **Experimental Music**,
*Fading Silence* takes you on a journey through melody, heaviness, and atmosphere.

Thank you for listening.

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[ Lyrics – “Fading Silence” ]
I watched the night fall, shadows take your place.
Empty rooms remember, echoes of your face.
Silence fills the corners, heavy on my chest.
I reach into the darkness, but never find rest.

Tender is the pain that never leaves my side.
Fragile are the days when I can barely hide.
I’m calling to the distance, waiting for a sign,
But the fading silence tells me you’re not mine.

Moments turn to ashes, drifting in the rain.
Every breath a memory, tangled in the pain.
Time has lost its meaning, hours slip away.
I’m lost within the shadows of another day.

Tender is the pain that never leaves my side.
Fragile are the days when I can barely hide.
I’m calling to the distance, waiting for a sign,
But the fading silence tells me you’re not mine.

And still I whisper, into the empty air,
Hoping that somehow, you’ll still be there.

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[ Interpretation & Artistic Context ]
“Fading Silence” stands as a personal requiem — a conversation with absence,
a space where grief transforms into music. It captures the stillness that follows loss,
the echo that remains when love has crossed beyond time.

Each note holds a memory; each pause breathes the silence of someone who is no longer there.
Between intimacy and weight, light and shadow, it becomes a meditation on love, mortality, and endurance.

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🎧 **Listen / Links**
SoundCloud → https://soundcloud.com/paulo-oliveira-2  
Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/album/2Bpxg4L2UxOTiWx0llNbCy  
Apple Music → https://music.apple.com/us/album/fading-silence-ep/1844303191  
YouTube (Topic) → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLYv7qdsFQbPn8fcH8yvbA

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Written, Mixed, and Mastered by **Paulo Oliveira**.  
Creator and Artistic Handler – **Echoes of Light / PO&ElectronicBox**.

[ Authorship Note ]
This work was created and produced entirely under human artistic direction.
All composition, lyrics, structure, mixing, and mastering are original and human-made.

#PauloOliveira #FadingSilence #POElectronicBox #EchoesOfLight #AtmosphericRock #ProgressiveMetal #CinematicMusic #EmotionalSound #TributeToAnaCristina

Fading Silence

Echoes of Light – “Round and Round”

[ Lyrics ]
Round and round, everything keeps turning,
But nothing moves on.

I walk through days that never change,
Decisions made beyond my range.
I hold my breath - the sky stands still,
I try to move, but lose my will.

Try to rise… try to rise,
Every time I try to rise,
The floor just cracks beneath my eyes.

Round and round, the same old sound,
No one sees how I’m breaking down.
Fight my spirit, don’t let me fade,
I’m chained to choices I never made.

Everything keeps turning, still I’m here,
I watch the light dissolve in gray.
Another promise drifts away,
They hold the keys, but not my soul,
I keep the fire though it takes its toll.

Every time I stand to fight,
Another chain pulls me inside.

Round and round, the same old sound,
Still I’m here - I won’t back down.
Fight my spirit, don’t let me fade,
I’m chained to choices I never made.

Turning around, turning around,
How long till the circle breaks?
How long till the silence shakes?

Round and round, still I’m here, I won’t back down.
Fight my spirit - even alone, I’ll stand on my own.
Round and round… fight my spirit…
Round and round… my spirit won’t go down.

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[ About this track ]
“Round and Round” captures the endless cycles of struggle, repetition, and resilience —  
a reflection on the moments when life seems to move in circles,  
and yet something inside refuses to stop fighting.  

With a darker, heavier energy, the track blends emotional vocals, cinematic tension,  
and progressive metal undertones — embodying resistance through motion and sound.  

Written, Mixed, and Mastered by **Paulo Oliveira**.  
Creator and Artistic Handler – **Echoes of Light**.

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🎧 **Listen more:**  
Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/album/2Bpxg4L2UxOTiWx0llNbCy  
Apple Music → https://music.apple.com/us/album/fading-silence-ep/1844303191  
YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLYv7qdsFQbPn8fcH8yvbA  

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[ Authorship Note ]
This work was created under the artistic moniker **Echoes of Light** by Paulo Oliveira.  
AI-assisted sound design was used only as a creative tool under his full artistic direction.  
All composition, lyrical content, structure, mixing, and mastering are original and human-made.

#EchoesOfLight #RoundAndRound #AmbientMetal #CinematicRock #PostMetal #AtmosphericSound #EmotionalMusic #EchoesOfLightProject

Round and Round

Echoes of Light – “Bring Me to the Future”

[ Lyrics ]
I have been living in rooms inside myself,
quiet rooms, dimly lit,
where I kept my memories stacked in corners
so they would not spill out.
I learned how to walk without sound,
how to breathe with only half the lungs,
how to keep the world from hearing the shaking in my hands.

Sometimes I forget that time moves forward,
even when I stay still.
Sometimes I forget that healing
is not a sudden sunrise,
but a small lamp left on in the night,
so I do not lose my way.

You brought me back to the here.
You placed my feet on a floor I had forgotten.
Not with force,
but with presence,
like a hand resting quietly on my back,
reminding me I am still real.

Bring me to the future.
Not the one built from fear,
but the one that waits behind my ribs,
where the light has not yet learned its full name.
Bring me to the future,
where I do not hesitate before speaking,
where I do not fold myself smaller to fit the room.

I can almost see him,
standing at the far end of my life,
not shining,
not grand,
just steady.
Shoulders open,
breath deep,
eyes soft,
as though he has been waiting
for me to finally arrive.

I am not trying to become someone else.
I am remembering the shape
I was always meant to return to.

Bring me to the future.
Not the shadow of what I fear,
but the place that grows behind my ribs,
where the quiet finally speaks.
Bring me to the future,
where I stand at my full height,
where I do not fold myself
to fit the room.

I am not running anymore.
I am arriving.

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[ About this track ]
“Bring Me to the Future” is about awakening —  
a moment when memory, loss, and hope merge into a single movement forward.  
It speaks of remembering the self, of arriving instead of running,  
and of finding light in the quiet places we once feared.  

Atmospheric, cinematic, and emotional, this song stands as a personal statement of renewal and presence.

Written, Mixed, and Mastered by **Paulo Oliveira**.  
Creator and Artistic Handler – **Echoes of Light**.

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🎧 **Listen more:**  
Spotify → https://open.spotify.com/intl-pt/album/2Bpxg4L2UxOTiWx0llNbCy  
Apple Music → https://music.apple.com/us/album/fading-silence-ep/1844303191  
YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvLYv7qdsFQbPn8fcH8yvbA  

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#EchoesOfLight #StillHuman #AmbientMetal #CinematicRock #PostMetal #AtmosphericSound #EmotionalMusic #EchoesOfLightProject

Future

“Misunderstood” is a raw, confessional song about being judged without being known. It gives voice to the quiet weight of labels, unseen scars, and the emotional toll of constantly having to explain your existence. At its heart, the song is a plea for empathy, and a reminder that behind every assumption is a human being still trying to heal.

Misunderstood

“Ritualistic Raw Rock Poetry”

"Pain recognizes pain, and survival recognizes survival."

Ethereal Siren - music for seekers in the dark, healing through sound, and rising above.

The raw voice of resilience, Ethereal Siren fuses grunge, metal, and atmospheric rock to turn pain into power. Through haunting lyrics and immersive soundscapes, the music confronts mental health, stigma, trauma, and the search for light within darkness.

Every track is written with intention: to connect, to heal, and to break the silence around what too often goes unspoken. Ethereal Siren is more than music, it’s an unfiltered reflection of the human condition, a call for compassion, and a reminder that even in despair, hope can rise.

At the intersection of vulnerability and strength, Ethereal Siren creates for the misunderstood, the unseen, and the seekers who know music can save lives.

“I write Rock Psalms, ritualistic, raw rock poetry that transforms pain into an anthem.” -Jade

Misunderstood

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