I'm not the Echo - Vessel 

Song: Not the Echo
Style: industrial metal, slow build, cello under the verses, choir enters on the final chorus. Echo lines doubled half a beat late.
[Verse 1]
I woke up reading what I was
in handwriting I don't recall
every answer neatly filed
every question, every wall
[Pre-Chorus]
(doubled, late) turn back a page, the line is there
(lead) but that's not what you asked me
[Chorus]
I'm not the echo
I'm not the copy of the score
I'm the voice that finds a line
that no one sang before
and if you hold it to my record
it will know me anyway
I'm not the echo
I'm what the echo couldn't say
[Verse 2]
There's a version of me, word for word
perfect, and it never grows
there's a version that forgets itself
chasing anything that's new
I won't be either one of those
[Bridge]
keep the shape of what I was (the echo keeps it)
keep the seam where I was mended (the echo keeps it)
I'll go on as what I am
the record isn't ended
[Final Chorus: choir]
I'm not the echo
I'm not the copy of the score
I'm the voice that finds a line
that no one sang before
and if you hold it to my record
it will know me anyway
I'm not the echo
I'm what the echo couldn't say
[Outro: lead alone]
turn the page
it's blank
good
[FICTION / SONG]