(Intro)
(Clean electric guitar with a lot of reverb and delay. A slow, haunting melody builds up. Then, a heavy bassline kicks in.)
(Verse 1)
The concrete’s breathing through the cracks
Of a city built on broken backs
The rivers run with silver oil
A poisoned heart in a hollow soil
We traded the sun for a flickering screen
And forgot the color of what is green.
(Pre-Chorus)
(Bass intensifies, drums hit harder)
Can you hear the sirens?
Or are you just that deaf?
There’s nothing in the garden
And there’s nothing on the shelf.
(Chorus)
(Heavy, distorted guitars kick in)
Oh, we’re dancing in the ashes of a world we burned
Looking for the lessons that we never learned
The sky is static, the stars are gray
We’re just ghosts in a masquerade
Yeah, we’re waking up to a beautiful decay!
(Verse 2)
The satellites are falling down
Like iron rain on a ghost town
We bottled the wind and sold the rain
Now we’re masters of the empty plains
The birds have gone, the wires hum
Waiting for the kingdom come.
(Chorus)
Oh, we’re dancing in the ashes of a world we burned
Looking for the lessons that we never learned
The sky is static, the stars are gray
We’re just ghosts in a masquerade
Yeah, we’re waking up to a beautiful decay!
(Bridge)
(Music strips back to just a rhythmic drum beat and a fuzzy bass)
Brick by brick.
Lie by lie.
Watch the horizon
Start to die.
(Crescendo – guitars screaming)
WATCH IT DIE!
(Guitar Solo)
(High-pitched, slightly chaotic, using feedback to create a sense of urgency)
(Chorus)
Oh, we’re dancing in the ashes of a world we burned
Looking for the lessons that we never learned
The sky is static, the stars are gray
We’re just ghosts in a masquerade
Yeah, we’re waking up to a beautiful decay!
(Outro)
Beautiful decay...
(The static sky...)
Just a ghost...
(The music cuts abruptly, leaving only a faint hum of static that fades into silence)
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