(lo-fi synth bell, slightly detuned, like a music box)
Tick in the wall, it’s learning my name
Soft little hollow, pretending to play
I asked the dark if it wanted to stay
It laughed in a voice that I can’t explain
(glitch cut — everything drops out for half a beat)
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Verse 1 (whimsical, slightly off-time drums)
Life is a hallway painted in chalk
Every door hums when I try to talk
I press my ear to the thinning divide
And hear my heartbeat on the other side
It says “don’t worry, I’m not here to end you”
I said “then why do you follow me through?”
It said “because I’m the weight in your breath
You only know living because I’m death”
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Pre-Chorus (pitch shift upward, more chaotic layering)
And I don’t feel scared anymore
Just curious what I’m living for
If nothing ends, then nothing begins
So I let the silence crawl under my skin
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Chorus (bright, almost cheerful but eerie undertone)
Oh death, you’re the reason I move
The push in my bones, the rhythm I choose
If I never fell, I’d never rise
So I thank the night for teaching me light
Oh life, you’re just borrowed flame
Flickering hard in a paper name
I only burn because I will fade
That’s how I know I was made
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Verse 2 (glitchy, more distorted, slightly uncomfortable)
I tried to outrun the ending line
It caught up laughing, said “you’re doing fine”
It didn’t chase me, it stayed inside
In every breath I tried to hide
It said “I’m not cruel, I’m just the frame
That gives your colors a reason to change”
And I believed it, or maybe I didn’t
But either way, I’m still living in it
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Bridge (melting structure, warped vocals, fragmented lines)
If I remove you
I remove me
If I remove death
What would life be?
(glitch loop, reversed vocals)
I am the ending
I am the start
I am the quiet
inside your heart
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Final Chorus (big emotional contrast: bright + uneasy)
Oh death, you’re the reason I move
The push in my bones, the rhythm I choose
If I never fell, I’d never rise
So I thank the night for teaching me light
Oh life, you’re just borrowed flame
Flickering hard in a paper name
I only burn because I will fade
That’s how I know I was made
(last line cuts off mid-word, tape stop)
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