“Pain Translator” by MoodyLoe - Zona

“Pain Translator” by MoodyLoe - Zona

Lyrics

🔹 [INTRO – Spoken over vinyl crackle + low piano]

(Moody Loe, under breath)

“They don’t hear me until I bleed on a beat…

I don’t talk — I translate pain.”

(piano loop fades in, ambient vocal pad rising)

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🔹 [HOOK] (layered harmony + falsetto adlibs)

I don’t cry, I translate pain

Turn heartbreak to a melody lane

I been numb, but the beat still bang

So I bleed through the pen when I can’t explain

Don’t need love, I just need this booth

I ain’t healed, but I speak my truth

Put my trauma in a 16 bar

Let it echo through a cracked heart scar

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🔹 [VERSE 1]

Look—

They love me more when I’m broken

Treat my silence like it’s spoken

Said “I’m fine,” but my lungs still burn

Singin’ pain that I ain’t unlearned

I wrote you in lowercase guilt

Spelled it out in the pain I built

Ain’t no metaphor strong enough

When the past don’t loosen up

I’m a poet in a trap boy frame

Love don’t hit — it ricochets shame

I seen hugs turn into farewells

So I vent in the bass like a padded cell

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🔹 [PRE-HOOK] (soft female background vox answering)

“You never opened up to me…”

That’s ‘cause music got the key

I don’t know how to sit and speak

But I know how to weep on a beat

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🔹 [HOOK – FULL VOCAL STACK]

I don’t cry, I translate pain

Turn heartbreak to a melody lane

I been numb, but the beat still bang

So I bleed through the pen when I can’t explain

Don’t need love, I just need this booth

I ain’t healed, but I speak my truth

Put my trauma in a 16 bar

Let it echo through a cracked heart scar

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🔹 [VERSE 2]

I gave her flowers I wrote on loops

But she wanted feelings, not Pro Tools truth

She said, “You always rhyme what you avoid”

I said, “I don’t know how to feel without noise”

My childhood still got 808s

Screamin’ through the walls like rage on plates

I record in the dark, where the ghosts got say

Every bar I spit been tucked away

I been cryin’ in reverb

Love feel foreign, but pain I preserve

So if I go silent, don’t be afraid

Just know I’m in the booth tryna translate

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🔹 [BRIDGE – Breakdown, no drums, layered harmonies + echo FX]

Talkin’ ain’t safe…

So I speak in 808s

If I’m quiet, it don’t mean I’m fine

Just means I’m writin’ another line

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🔹 [FINAL HOOK – Drag tempo slightly, cinematic vocal stack]

I don’t cry, I translate pain

Turn heartbreak to a melody lane

I been numb, but the beat still bang

So I bleed through the pen when I can’t explain

Don’t need love, I just need this booth

I ain’t healed, but I speak my truth

Put my trauma in a 16 bar

Let it echo through a cracked heart scar

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🔹 [OUTRO – Lo-fi piano loop + vocal filter drop]

(Moody Loe whisper)

“If I ever say ‘I’m good’ too fast…

Play this track back.”

(beat fades into analog tape hiss, then silence)

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🔊 VOCAL LAYERING & ZONA CUES

• Whisper doubles on “translate pain” in hook

• Female answer-backs on “you never opened up” pre-hook

• Layered falsetto on “I ain’t healed but I speak my truth”

• Outro line should be dry, centered, and intimate