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Redemption Arc
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Redemption Arc was released on April 8, 2026 by 12297877 Records DK as a part of the album Redemption Arc - Single
April 8, 2026
Label12297877 Records DK
LanguageEnglish
BPM66
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy

Music Video

Music Video

Lyrics

They write redemption arcs
For men like you
The golden ones
The ones with blue eyes
And a jawline carved from stone
On your good days you were blinded
Stealing sunlight, sworn and crowned
Every shield wall parted for you
Every hall fell silent
When you walked the ground
You carried something ancient in your shoulders
Norse blood burning through your hands
A knight misplaced by centuries
A Viking without a longship or a land
A hundred women tried to save you
Laid their softness at your feet
You took the ones who couldn't bear it
And you left the rest of us as incomplete
I was the one you never touched
Never moved, never unmade
And I'd have let you, God, I'd have let you
I'd have walked into that blade
I would have taken any wound you gave me
I would have bled for you and called it grace
But you chose the ones you knew you'd ruin
And you looked right through my face
Where's the redemption arc?
Where's the chapter where you turn?
Where's the moment someone reaches you before
You let the whole thing burn?
They write these stories every day
The broken knight comes back from war
But you, you never found the page
You never opened that door
You could be so generous it stole your breath
Noble and brilliant and unbearably kind
Then the darkness would roll down like a visor
And your cruelty was surgical and blind
You'd feel something real and you'd detonate it
Burned the bridge while you were standing on it still
Love was the thing that terrified you most
And you were braver than anyone except at being real
I couldn't be a person I know that now
Some of us are made to love from the treeline
Watching the castle burn down
And you, you magnificent bastard
You didn't even have the mercy to go fast
You killed yourself one bottle at a time
While every single one of us watched through the glass
Where's the redemption arc?
Where's the chapter where you turn?
Where's the version of this story where I don't have to watch you burn?
They write these endings every goddamn day
The hero falls, the hero rises, hope
But you chose the slow way out
And you took us with you, rope by rope by rope
I am a writer, I am the storyteller
I know how this is supposed to go
The knight lays down his sword, someone holds him in the dark
And love, love is how the healing starts to grow
But you wouldn't let us hold you
You wouldn't put the bottle down
You wouldn't stop swinging at the people
Building scaffolding around
There is no redemption arc
There is no chapter where you turn
There is no version of this story
Where I don't stand here and burn
You are the hero, you are the villain
You are the sword and you are the wound
You were the knight who should have come home
You were the song that ended too soon
They write redemption arcs
For men like you
The golden ones
The ones with blue eyes
And a jawline carved from stone
I'm still writing yours even though you're gone
I'm still writing yours
I will always be writing yours
You could be so generous it stole your breath
Noble and brilliant and unbearably kind
Then the darkness would roll down like a visor
And your cruelty was surgical and blind
You'd feel something real
And you..
Written by: Stephanie Reiley
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