Peripheral Vision

(Sound of heavy rain hitting a window pane)

I think I see you... (Where?)

Right at the edge of my eye... (Don't look)

(A deep, warm sub-bass enters.)

I swear I see your shadow dancing on my bedroom wall (Shadows)

But when I turn my head around, there’s no one there at all (Empty)

You’re a phantom glitch lingering in the corner of the room

An uninvited presence filling up the heavy gloom (So heavy)

I try to focus on the future, try to keep my eyes ahead

But your silhouette keeps crawling right into my bed (Get out!)

A flickering illusion, a trick of the ambient light

You’re the shape that keeps me up in the middle of the night.

(The bass drops out.)

Are you standing over there? Are you watching me break?

How much of my sanity are you trying to take?

I look directly at the spot, and you disappear.

(Screaming vocal layer)

BUT I STILL FEEL YOU HERE!

(BASS DROP - Massive, emotional Hybrid Trap. Soaring, sad synths mixed with rapid hi-hat rolls and heavy 808s)

You’re living in my peripheral vision! (Right there!)

A permanent ghost from a toxic decision! (Mistake!)

I see your face fade when I turn my head! (Fading!)

Haunting the living from the world of the dead! (Go away!)

A glitch in the corner, a spark in the dark! (Spark!)

Leaving your outline, leaving your mark! (Marked!)

Peripheral vision!

(Glitch vocal effect) V-v-vision!

(Beat drops into a hard-hitting, triplet trap flow with deep metallic snaps)

You’re a background process that I cannot shut down (Lagging!)

Running in my subconscious while I walk through the town (So lost)

Every stranger passing by has got your haircut and your eyes

The paranoia is a monster that I can't disguise (Monster!)

I check the mirror twice, checking if you’re behind my back

You’re a data corruption trail that I can't untrack (Liar)

A shape in the doorway, a voice in the breeze

Bringing me down directly to my knees! (Ugh!)

(The trap drums vanish completely. Only an acoustic acoustic guitar pluck covered in digital bitcrushing FX remains)

Why won’t you leave me alone? Why won’t you go?

You already took everything that I used to know.

Now you’re just a trick that my eyes play on me.

(The drums begin a rapid, rolling build-up with heavy digital riser sound effects)

But I’m blinking you out!

Yeah, I’m clearing the view!

I’m turning the lights up, I’m finished with you! (Now!)

Get out of the corners! (Out!)

(BASS DROP - Full-energy emotional climax. The sad synth melody screams over highly distorted, clipping 808s)

You’re living in my peripheral vision! (Right there!)

A permanent ghost from a toxic decision! (Mistake!)

I see your face fade when I turn my head! (Fading!)

Haunting the living from the world of the dead! (Go away!)

A glitch in the corner, a spark in the dark! (Spark!)

Leaving your outline, leaving your mark! (Marked!)

Peripheral vision!

(Whispered, dry vocal)

There's nothing there.

It's just me.