Prompt:

[Verse 1] I learned young that golden names can turn a child into a crime. One wheel, one scream, one noble grave, and I was guilty by design. Home shut hard behind my back, the street taught hunger how to grin; I wore my bruises like a jacket and kept the cold from getting in. Hunter found me half-feral, all sharp elbows, teeth, and pride. He put a blade into my fingers and taught my fear to stand upright. For once the world had rules I knew: keep your guard and strike back clean. Then even he was taken from me, like peace was never meant for me. [Pre-Chorus] So I sold my sword to bad men, called it work and called it fair. If love kept leaving through the graveyard, I would stop pretending care. [Chorus] I’m a stray dog with a demon heart, laughing loud so I don’t fall apart. Call me curse, call me mistake; I’ve heard worse and stayed awake. I bite first, but I bleed for mine; cross that line and I’ll cross yours twice. I don’t need a crown or throne, just one damn place that feels like home. [Verse 2] Kings speak law with polished daggers, soldiers smile behind their shields. They left me dying under branches, one more secret for the fields. Then the dark bent close beside me, cold as frost beneath the skin; Tchort whispered from the hollow, “Give me room and live again.” Maybe I should have feared the bargain, maybe I should have let death win. But I had rage inside my mouth and nothing left to rot within. I woke with blackness in my breathing, old revenge beneath my scars, and every road that should have ended dragged me underneath new stars. [Chorus] I’m a stray dog with a demon heart, running wild through a world gone dark. Call me curse, call me mistake; I’ve heard worse and stayed awake. I bite first, but I bleed for mine; touch my friends and watch me bite. I don’t need a crown or throne, just one damn place that feels like home. [Verse 3] I met fools on burning roads and called them baggage to their face, then learned the sound of all their footsteps and hated how it felt like grace. I said I wasn’t staying long, said bonds were traps with better lies, but I slept lighter near their voices and watched the dark with open eyes. Then Siegfried came in holy armor, wearing judgment like a crown. He searched my soul for hidden answers and dragged the buried sunlight out. Garden walls and childhood laughter, blood beneath a carriage wheel; the friend I lost stood there before me, and neither of us knew how to heal. [Bridge] Siegfried, you wanted the boy you remembered, not this thing with a demon in his shadow. I wanted you to say my name without looking like the past had betrayed you. Tchort went silent in my ribs, like even hell knew not to laugh. For one breath we were children again, then the world took that too. [Fast Build] So I run with my blade out, grin wide, luck bad, talking like nothing can hurt what I’ve had. Abaddon pointed me back toward the flame, back to the idiots I tried not to name. I saw an Angel in a tavern glow, saw Tchort remember what he didn’t know. Gods, monsters, graves, and debts— I keep swinging through all of it. [Final Chorus] I’m a stray dog with a demon heart, laughing loud so I don’t fall apart. Call me curse, call me mistake; I’ve heard worse and stayed awake. I bite first, but I love like fire; drag me down, I climb back higher. I don’t need a crown or throne, just one damn place that feels like home. [Outro] Tchort keeps quiet under my scars, Siegfried walks too far to reach. I keep my sword where grief can’t rust, and my heart behind my teeth. If there’s a home beyond this road, past every wound I used to hide, I’ll run there bleeding, laughing, armed, with hell itself along for the ride.