Puk, "Create a haunting spoken-word storytelling track with deep, emotional male or female narration. Atmospheric, melancholic buzzing piano throughout — slow, echoing, minor keys, like rain on a window. Minimalist production with subtle rain sounds and distant echoes. No upbeat singing, mostly spoken with occasional soft melodic humming or whispers on the refrain. Dark, cinematic, heartfelt refugee/exile lament.
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Puk, "Create a haunting spoken-word storytelling track with deep, emotional male or female narration. Atmospheric, melancholic buzzing piano throughout — slow, echoing, minor keys, like rain on a window. Minimalist production with subtle rain sounds and distant echoes. No upbeat singing, mostly spoken with occasional soft melodic humming or whispers on the refrain. Dark, cinematic, heartfelt refugee/exile lament.
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Policy version: pending
Prompt:
Verse 1 They say this world is big but big don't mean kind Big don't mean fair when the people inside are small I've felt the world crush me and I sang Praised the pain 'cause what else could I do Heart shattered and I laughed 'Cause crying would've given them what they wanted I learned to appreciate even that Their cruelty taught me who they really are Nobody hears me I've screamed into silence my whole life Still I'm the bad one always People are hypocrites stand over a dead body Negotiate how to advise his rest like a business deal Disgusting Chorus I smile not because the pain is gone But because my smile is my shield My laugh is my weapon My silence is my answer I carry my father's name and his blood And I will not bow to those who wish me dead This is my story raw bleeding true And it's not over Verse 2 Don't fix what's gone you'll just look lost People are like flames smell like fire act like fire But close they burn out or burn you That hater shows up as neighbor pressing your wound pretending to heal I know that mask seen it every day Kindness grows I haven't lost myself Endurance doesn't fade names forgotten stories rise No one forgets how I hurt them they remember every stumble But my pain my reasons they don't care Stop laughing stop pretending Singing at a funeral don't mean you loved the dead Ten years of hate don't vanish in one day of mourning Circle of pain don't break 'cause you dropped a coin We become God's by repenting every day not once No rule says you can't show wrongs if that rule existed prisons empty Chorus I smile not because the pain is gone But because my smile is my shield My laugh is my weapon My silence is my answer I carry my father's name and his blood And I will not bow to those who wish me dead This is my story raw bleeding true And it's not over Verse 3 People count my every mistake weigh them heavier punish each breath Not every step needs apology sometimes I'm just responding Salt and oil on meat but meat felt the knife long before it's dead That's what they've done killed something in me seasoning the corpse They rush to criticize never to heal me In Black silence mutuality in White silence overseeing Neither saved me We step out of problems not out of who we are Death comes when time burns no one stops it I buried my father hated it not 'cause I lost him But 'cause I knew they were happy they thought I cried for him Truth I cried 'cause they got what they wanted Losing him was life he lost me too I carry his name his DNA proud of that Real hurt they showed up never told him I wanted to bury him Robbed me I mourned not for him but for them They laid him down while I stood aside My wound isn't unique others carried it I don't blame those who meant well But those with hidden smiles no sympathy at my death They're waiting planning they'll cry for their lost hate I smiled acted like nothing but I saw them They thought I was crushed by his death Truth I was crushed because they knew I was hurting and that fed them The death was their excuse to watch me bleed That man married to corruption wanted to see me cry But he never knew I've been hurting since the beginning I wore my pain like a second skin made it my neighbor So it says sorry when I can't say thanks Lived among people who wished for a funeral in my house They didn't know I saw their wish years ago They surrounded me paid for my pain with fake tears Today they carry your corpse Dad they cry with me they mourn They really feel pain 'cause you're gone and they never saw you hate me Dad I'll see you on the other side Bridge They taught me hate graduated me but they'll never know how well I learned They think this world is theirs but they're temporary Plan my death daily but never plan their own They hurt my mother wanted her on her knees she got lost I got lost World told me go back to the same land I fled cruelest joke I escaped fire now I'm supposed to walk back in He came with sympathy I'm so sorry I'm your family Accused me of disrespect standing over your dead body He was never a relative my birth was a mistake to them My progress they want none my birth their loss now my death My birth their regret now my mourning The pain I felt the day I left you that's the pain I carry Not your death that was life They paid money still paying to destroy me in this warm Africa They invest in my ruin not business they took you first now will they leave me No Dad come back just for one punch or teach me to look them in the eye and flinch Final Chorus I smile not because the pain is gone But because my smile is my shield My laugh is my weapon My silence is my answer I carry my father's name and his blood And I will not bow to those who wish me dead This is my story raw bleeding true and it's not over