(Industrial / Synth-Driven Heavy Metal Track for Cathedrals in Ruin II: The Flood*)*
(Intro — distorted radio static / deep synth pulse)
System failure…
Signal lost…
Humanity offline…
(Verse 1)
Neon blood runs through dead streets
Static crawling underneath
Every heartbeat synchronized
To machines that never die
Black screens glowing in the dark
Like artificial beating hearts
Everybody plugged into
A world too cold to feel the truth
I see ghosts behind the glass
Digital souls that never last
Coded dreams and fractured minds
Leaving flesh and faith behind
(Pre-Chorus — atmospheric synth build)
And I can hear the silence screaming
Through the wires and the ceiling
(Chorus — massive cinematic hook)
We are digital ghosts
Haunting the signal
Lost inside machines
Trying to feel whole
Static hearts
Synthetic souls
Screaming through the void
So somebody knows
Even if the world decays
And heaven overloads
We’ll still be alive
As digital ghosts
(Verse 2)
Cold chrome skyline, acid rain
Everybody numbs the pain
Artificial paradise
Built to keep us hypnotized
The flood came fast, the towers fell
Now servers burn like gates of hell
But somewhere in the static glow
Human hearts still overload
I watched the city lose its mind
While satellites went blind
And every lonely soul online
Was begging just to feel alive
(Pre-Chorus)
So we turned our fear electric
And made an anthem from the wreckage
(Chorus)
We are digital ghosts
Haunting the signal
Lost inside machines
Trying to feel whole
Static hearts
Synthetic souls
Screaming through the void
So somebody knows
Even if the oceans rise
And swallow what we know
We’ll still survive
As digital ghosts
(Breakdown — crushing industrial metal)
ERROR
ERROR
SYSTEM OVERLOAD
BLACKOUT
BURNOUT
NO ESCAPE BELOW
WE ARE THE LAST TRANSMISSION
THE FINAL VOICES IN THE NOISE
A GENERATION BUILT FROM RUINS
TRYING TO DESTROY THE VOID
(Bridge — melodic / emotional)
Maybe we were never broken
Maybe we were born between
The human heart and dying circuits
Caught inside the in-between
(Final Chorus — huge layered synths and guitars)
We are digital ghosts
Still inside the signal
Every broken kid tonight
Becomes immortal
No more silence
No more shame
We carve our names into the flames
And when the whole world finally goes cold
The static will remember us
Digital ghosts
(Outro — fading synth arpeggio / radio crackle)
Signal restored…
Signal restored…
Still alive…
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