TIME GATE

‏[INTRO — Dark / Slow]
‏Three knocks in the dead of night,
‏Clock froze up, then flashed a light.
‏Door swung wide, I heard a voice:
‏“Go back in time... but choose your choice.”
‏I said, “Why? What’s the price?”
‏It said, “Every change comes twice.”
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‏[VERSE 1 — Slow Flow]
‏I opened my eyes, didn’t know where I stood,
‏Baghdad looked different, but it still felt good.
‏Same old Tigris, same moon in the sky,
‏But faces I lost were suddenly alive.
‏I walked those streets that I knew by heart,
‏Back to the days before we fell apart.
‏I thought, “Maybe time gave me one more chance,
‏One last shot to rewrite my past.”
‏Then I saw my father, younger than before,
‏That same old smile, standing by the door.
‏I wanted to warn him, “Don’t carry that load,”
‏But time whispered, “Don’t change the road.”
‏Then I saw my mother, laughing like before,
‏I stood frozen, couldn't move anymore.
‏I wanted one hug, just one more embrace,
‏But I feared changing the future by touching her face.
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‏[PRE-CHORUS]
‏Every step I take creates a different road,
‏Every life I save adds another load.
‏I came back asking, “What can I repair?”
‏But time asked me, “What can you bear?”
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‏[CHORUS — Big / Catchy]
‏If I could go back, would I change my past?
‏Would I fix every wound, make the good times last?
‏Would I save every soul that I couldn't save?
‏Or leave every scar that made me brave?
‏If I could go back, I wouldn't change the world,
‏I’d change the man staring back at me.
‏The past is a lesson, the future's unknown,
‏And the only real power... is the choice I own.
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‏[VERSE 2 — Faster Flow]
‏A thousand roads, a thousand lives,
‏A thousand ways to lose or survive.
‏One road made me rich, one left me broke,
‏One made me king, one left me with no hope.
‏I said, “I can rewrite history tonight!”
‏The voice said, “History rewrites you in the fight.”
‏I said, “I can save them, I can make it right!”
‏It said, “Save one life... who pays the price?”
‏Now I see the truth, and the truth cuts deep,
‏Every choice has a cost that you gotta keep.
‏Stop one disaster, another might rise,
‏Save one person, another disappears from your eyes.
‏I saw Iraq through a different view,
‏People chasing dreams, trying to make it through.
‏Mothers still waiting, fathers still praying,
‏Kids asking questions while the world keeps changing.
‏I looked at that child and I knew what to say:
‏“You don't need to know why the world turned this way.
‏Keep your heart strong, don't surrender your flame,
‏One day you'll look back and be proud of your name.”
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‏[BRIDGE — Emotional / Half-Time]
‏Time, tell me why you take what we love,
‏Why you leave empty spaces we can't rise above?
‏Why do we learn what a moment is worth
‏Only after it disappears from the earth?
‏The voice went quiet...
‏Then whispered low:
‏“You don't miss the moment
‏until the moment is gone.”
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‏[VERSE 3 — HARD / RAP FLOW]
‏
‏I stood up — enough, I ain't running away,
‏Yesterday's gone, but I own today.
‏I don't need a machine to rewrite my fate,
‏I need the courage to stop showing up late.
‏The gate started shaking, the whole world cracked,
‏Past in my vision, future on my back.
‏Lost faces calling, trying to pull me inside,
‏But I looked at the gate and I stepped aside.
‏I said, “Take me back! I've got people to find!”
‏Time said, “Stop chasing what you left behind.”
‏I said, “I've got dreams that I never achieved!”
‏It said, “Then stop waiting — make yourself believe.”
‏I said, “I've got mistakes that I can't erase!”
‏It said, “Turn those mistakes into strength and grace.”
‏That was the moment I finally knew:
‏The past isn't prison — it's proof you grew.
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‏[FINAL CHORUS — EPIC / EXPLOSIVE]
‏If I could go back — I wouldn't go back!
‏I'd run toward tomorrow and stay on the track!
‏I wouldn't rewrite every chapter I've lived,
‏I'd take every scar for the strength that it gives!
‏If I could go back — I'd change only me!
‏Turn pain into power, turn fear into speed!
‏Let the past stay behind, let the future unfold,
‏I've got one life, one shot, one road!
‏I won't break!
‏I won't hide!
‏I won't waste another night!
‏What is gone is gone for good —
‏Now I'm coming back alive!
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‏[OUTRO — Cinematic / Slow]
‏The clock started ticking.
‏One final sound.
‏I opened the door...
‏Baghdad was still there.
‏The Tigris still flowed.
‏The city still dreamed.
‏But I wasn't the same.
‏I finally understood:
‏You don't need to travel through time
‏to change your life.
‏You just need to change today...
‏before today becomes yesterday.
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