[Intro- A single, clean guitar plays a haunting, dissonant melody soaked in chorus and delay. It sounds watery and uncomfortable. The bass enters—a low, prowling rumble. The drums play a slow, hip-hop influenced groove.]
[Verse 1- Vocals are a breathy whisper, barely audible, panning left and right]
I watched the fever break behind your eyes.
I watched the temperature drop.
You’re shedding the skin of the person I knew
Peeling it off like a glove.
You look so different in this light
Pale and predatory
Sharp and white.
You’re checking your reflection in the knife.
[Pre-Chorus- The drums get busier. The guitar distortion swells like a wave coming in. Vocals switch to a melodic moan/croon]
It’s happening again...
The metamorphosis.
You’re trading your heart for a cold, cold kiss.
Give it to me.
[Sharp inhale]
Give it to me.
[Chorus- Explosion. Massive "Shoegaze" chords—thick and fuzzy. Vocals are belted, long sustained notes, soaring over the noise]
Rip the wings right off your back!
I want to see where the bone turns black!
You’re beautiful when you’re cruel!
You’re beautiful when you rule!
I watched you change!
I watched you change into a god!
And I’m just the dirt beneath the rod!
[Verse 2- Music drops instantly to just Bass and Drums. The bass tone is nasty and distorted. Vocals are rhythmic and aggressive]
Don’t look at me like I’m the victim here.
I handed you the weapon.
I whispered the fear.
Now you’re walking on the ceiling
And I’m paralyzed on the floor.
I don’t know who you are anymore.
[Screamed background ad-lib]
WHO ARE YOU?!
[Bridge- Atmospheric interlude. Clean, eerie guitars return. Synthesizers screech like insects]
[Whisper]
It’s quiet...
It’s so quiet when the humanity leaves...
Show me.
Show me the monster.
[The Breakdown - The bass guitar takes over with a massive, distorted, sliding riff that sounds like machinery groaning. The drums switch to a tribal, tom-heavy beat.]
[Vocals - Repetitive, manic whispering building to a yell]
I see it underneath...
I see it underneath...
I see it underneath...
I SEE IT UNDERNEATH!
[The guitars join the bass, like the guitar is out of tune/melting.]
[Vocals - Long, fried screams holding out the vowels]
YOU’RE SHEDDING!
[SLOW, BENDING GROOVE]
YOU’RE SHEDDING!
[BASS SLIDE]
STRIP THE BONE!
LEAVE IT ALONE!
STRIP THE BONE!
LEAVE IT ALONE!
[Just a wall of rhythmic distortion.]
DON'T!
YOU!
RECOGNIZE!
ME!
[FEEDBACK SWELL]
MOTHER!
FUCKER!
[Chorus- Explosion. Massive "Shoegaze" chords—thick and fuzzy. Vocals are belted, long sustained notes, soaring over the noise]
Rip the wings right off your back!
I want to see where the bone turns black!
You’re beautiful when you’re cruel!
You’re beautiful when you rule!
And now you have changed!
[Outro- the heavy guitars sustain a final chord into feedback. The drums return to the slow, sexy hip-hop groove from the intro.]
[Clean Vocals - Moaning melody]
I watched you change...
Oh why did you change...
Now look at you.
[Fade to silence]
Atlantica
