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We are SHKAIL, and this is the first story we're telling. [email protected] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shkailmusic TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@shkailmusic LYRICS They carved my name before I could hold a pen, mapped out the girl, drew the lines, said amen. All those questions asked, and never one raised left for a later that never came. They filled my head with thoughts I never chose, taught me to echo, never to weigh. You gave me a life, and a voice of my own but you don't speak for me. But you don't speak for me. They learned what I'd click, and fed me the rest, chose what I'd see till I called it my taste. They finished my sentence before it was mine, answered the question I hadn't yet asked. They built me a mirror that only agreed a thousand of me, and not one of them doubts. You speak in my voice, and you're rarely wrong but you don't speak for me. You told our whole story and left out my half, cast me as an extra in the life I played. You named what I felt before I could tell called it a mood, or a tide that would turn. You were the light I read myself by and switched it off when I wasn't looking. You know every dark room in my head but you don't speak for me. You filled my mouth with words not my own, and called that echo a mandate to rule. You drew up my future in rooms I'm not in, for my own good, or so you say. You handed me enemies, told me to fear made monsters of neighbours, my friends and my peers. You carried the vote and I gave you mine but you don't speak for me. You don't speak for me. My words are mine, mine alone. Put my name back in my mouth I am not the echo, I'm the shout. I'm climbing up and you're coming down You don't speak for me. I need to find the words to break the silence before the silence breaks my spine. All those voices bear my name but none are here to state their claim. So I ask the dark what's left of me and the unbroken voice that answers ... is mine. You don't speak for me. My words are mine, mine alone. The silence doesn't scare me now I am not the echo, I'm the shout. I'm standing up and I'm not coming down You don't speak for me. You don't speak for me. My words are mine, mine alone. I like the sound of my own voice I am not the echo, I'm the shout. I'm standing in my own light now You don't speak for me. I speak for me. I speak for me. © 2026 SHKAIL