[Intro instrumental (heavy metal): F# minor, 70 BPM half-time feel. Clean, delay-soaked guitar picking a minor arpeggio over distant piano octaves. Low synth pad swelling like a storm front. Sub-bass drone underneath. Reverse cymbal rises → muted tom hits like a pulse → distorted guitar feedback swell → single down-tuned riff hit to launch Verse 1.]
[Verse 1: Sung in a sorrowful female voice]
We were two stray kings with paper crowns
Never thought anything could bring us down
Laughter, Love and borrowed time
Walking together in two straight lines
One sharp crack split my life in two
I turned as the sky fell out of you
I screamed your name like my last prayer
Violent sobs caught in my throat
A helpless call for no one there
Blood soaking through your coat
Red on my hands like I’m at fault
[Pre-Chorus: whispered without emotion]
Broken. Lifeless. Cold. True.
Shattering everything I thought I knew.
[Chorus: Sung]
All this love is my perfect lie
Lights above me in the sky
I’ve fallen to far to see the stars
I’m counting my sins with all these scars
my tears are falling like the rain
Tell me, can anyone see my pain
Every crowd screams my name
But no one’s here, No one left, No one came
[heart monitor beeps four times then flatlines]
[Verse 2: sung aggressively]
All these emotions, shoving me under water
Every death has haunted me
Mother, Brother, Best Friend, Daughter
Everything around me breaking slowly
These walls are closing in
It’s like my breath is struggling
Everybody telling me to look within
But all my thoughts are doubling
Mirror mirror on the wall
Can you tell me who I am at all
[pre-chorus 2: glitched vocals]
Broken heart, empty love, lifeless eyes, tired soul
I look at myself, I’m just the shattered remnants of a whole
[Chorus 2: Sung loudly]
All this love is my perfect lie
My mind is always telling me I can fly
It’s too late to start again
You already know who I am and what I’ve been
Every thought that’s in my head
always tell me I should be dead
No one sees, no one hears, no one feels
[all music stops: only a low deep pulse like a heartbeat echoes]
[Bridge: Sung over the pulse in two different voices at once, both female two different pitches]
Every night I dream that you’re still here
I wake up and you disappear
Over and over you disappear again
No text no call no warning
You just left, like a ghost in my memories
[pre-chorus 3: sobbed]
Little red lines writing what I feel
The coke never helps me heal
I spiral again and again
[music crashes back in]
[final chorus: Screamed]
All this love is my perfect lie
I scream to the heavens
But they never answer why
All this love is my perfect lie
Can any of you hear me fucking cry
It’s a slow suicide for fame
All these people screaming my name
Acting like they know me
But the only know what I let them see
All this love is my perfect lie
[all music fades]
[heart monitor flatlines]
[outro: spoken]
Fame is just a crown of blades on paper.
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