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Verse 1 
We were told not to wound with the words we speak,
Not to whisper the things that make the strong feel weak.
But the world has learned to laugh when others  fall,
We traded our mercy for the thrill of it all.

Pre‑Chorus 
Every faith, every heart, every holy line
Said the tongue can destroy what the hands cannot bind.

Chorus 
Ninety‑nine times we were warned about the fire,
How a single spark can burn through love and trust and choir.
Ninety‑nine times we were told to guard the soul,
To choose the kind of truth that heals and makes us whole.
Ninety‑nine times, and still we forget the signs—
But love keeps calling us back, ninety‑nine times.

Verse 2 
There’s a cost to the stories we twist and share,
To the secrets we spill just to so we don't care
And the hurt that we spread doesn’t fade with time,
It echoes in the hearts of the ones we've left behind.

Pre‑Chorus 
But the light in us rises when we choose restraint,
When we speak with the courage of a wiser saint.

Chorus 
Ninety‑nine times we were warned about the fire,
How a single spark can burn through love and trust and choir.
Ninety‑nine times we were told to guard the soul,
To choose the kind of truth that heals and makes us whole.
Ninety‑nine times, and still we forget the signs—
But love keeps calling us back, ninety‑nine times.

Bridge 
So let’s lay down the venom, the rumor, the sting,
Let compassion be louder than the chaos our voices bring.
Let the words that we speak be a shelter to love, not a storm,
Let the world feel safer in the sound of our reform.

Final Chorus 
Ninety‑nine times we were warned about the fire,
How a single spark can burn through love and trust and choir.
Ninety‑nine times we were told to guard the soul,
To choose the kind of truth that heals and makes us whole.
Ninety‑nine times, but grace still rewrites the lines—
And love keeps calling us back, ninety‑nine times.

Outro (spoken or sung softly) 
This song is not meant to reprimand,
but to remind us that cruelty is never to be tolerated.
You are loved.