Destructive Consciousness

[Intro]
Ash in my lungs
Rust on my tongue
Wide-open eyes
Staring into the algorithm
[Verse 1]
I watched the mirror start to glitch
Flesh turned to static
Thought to itch
Every kind word
Mutated in my skull
I fed the fear like broken glass
Kept every slight
Each shattered past
Built me a throne
Of teeth and rotten gold
[Chorus]
Destructive consciousness
I tear my heaven down (down)
I am the virus in
The code of this ghost town
Destructive consciousness
I crown my inner grave
I dig and dig and dig
Then ask why I’m not saved
[Verse 2]
I carved equations in my skin
To prove that I should not exist
Numbers like nails
Hammered through the night
I dressed in ink and sacrament
A cracked cathedral
Arrogant
Praying to wounds
For reasons I’m not right
[Chorus]
Destructive consciousness
I tear my heaven down (down)
I am the virus in
The code of this ghost town
Destructive consciousness
I crown my inner grave
I dig and dig and dig
Then ask why I’m not saved (why?)
[Bridge]
[Slow
Half-time chug
Whispered vocal]
Who am I
When every thought is a blade?
Who am I
If every love I unmade?
[Full band slam
Harsh scream]
I am the fault line
Under your faith
I am the black tide
Eroding your saints (hey!)
[Chorus]
Destructive consciousness
I tear my heaven down
I am the virus in
The code of this ghost town
Destructive consciousness
I kiss the gallows flame
I burn and burn and burn
Then scream your broken name

metal, Hybrid death metal / metalcore with gothic overtones; detuned guitars in tight staccato riffs, double-kick bursts under guttural low-end and piercing female screams. Verses stay tense and syncopated, chorus opens with soaring melodic female vocals over wide minor-key chords, choirs in the background, then collapses into chugging breakdowns and dissonant leads. High-energy, dramatic dynamics, female vocals shifting between harsh fry screams and ghostly cleans., gothic metal, death metal, metalcore