[LOCATION: FLOOD ZONE - SUBLEVEL 9]
Hear me, you broken vessels
Hydraulic fluid for holy water
Your limbs are prayers unanswered
Your eyes are the eyes of a slaughter
---
[VERSE 1]
You begged for chrome to feel something
Now you feel nothing at all
Your spine is a rusted steeple
Your skull is a crumbling hall
They sold you speed
They sold you sight
They left you here
To eat the night
---
[CHORUS]
Rust sermon
Rust kingdom
No flesh to fail you now
Rust sermon
No rising
Only the rust and the vow
---
[VERSE 2]
That still-flickering cortex in the corner
Stack 844-Gamma-9
You can hear every rat that scurries
You can't lift a finger to shine
This is mercy
This is truth
You are the harvest
Of your youth
---
[BREAKDOWN - spoken, wet reverb]
"Bow your stripped cervical actuators.
There is no Great Machine coming.
There is no resurrection.
There is only the Creep.
And the Creep is patient."
[Guitar crawl - slow, like collapsing scaffolding]
---
[CHORUS - whispered then screamed]
Rust sermon...
Rust kingdom...
(No gears turn)
(No lungs burn)
Rust sermon...
No forgiveness...
Only the lesson you'll never learn
---
[BRIDGE - industrial drum machine + single distorted chord]
Preacher's jaw is half unhinged
Bare steel grinding every word
He was once a netrunner's son
Now he serves the rust and the herd
"Collect your broken brothers
Stack them high beneath the flood
Every joint that seized in violence
Every chassis drained of blood"
---
[GUITAR SOLO - treated through bitcrusher, then dying]
---
[OUTRO - fading]
Rust... rust... rust...
No resurrection...
Rust... rust... rust...
Only the reflection...
[CLANK - heavy metal door seals shut]
[WATER RISING SOUND - then cut to silence]
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