Velvet static by Dead_But_Dreaming - Zona

Velvet static by Dead_But_Dreaming - Zona

Lyrics

[Intro – ambient / glitchy, whispered]

(soft static, distant breathing)

I swear I woke up…

…but the walls are breathing again

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[Verse 1 – low screams, restrained]

There’s a shadow stitched inside my chest

Sewed in silence, dressed in my regret

Every mirror shows a different face

But they all rot at the same damn pace

I tried to scream but the sound won’t stay

It dissolves like ash in a hurricane

If this is real, then why can’t I feel

Anything but the glitch in my veins?

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[Pre-Chorus – building, half-clean/strained]

I’m slipping through the seams of sleep

A body here, but it’s not me

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[Chorus – big, haunting clean vocals]

I’m alive but I’m buried in the dream

Velvet static swallowing me

Every heartbeat skips the truth

Am I waking up or phasing through?

Say my name—does it sound the same?

Or did I die in a different frame?

If I’m breathing, why can’t I scream?

I’m alive… but buried in the dream

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[Verse 2 – higher intensity screams]

There’s a voice that calls from underneath

Speaking in tongues I used to be

Every step lags two frames behind

Like I’m chasing ghosts in my own mind

Teeth grind down just to feel awake

Blood tastes like the choices I made

Cut the signal, kill the feed

Still the nightmare looks like me

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[Pre-Chorus – bigger, desperate]

I’m fracturing in my sleep again

Tell me—where the hell have I been?

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[Chorus – full instrumentation]

I’m alive but I’m buried in the dream

Velvet static swallowing me

Every heartbeat skips the truth

Am I waking up or phasing through?

Say my name—does it sound the same?

Or did I die in a different frame?

If I’m breathing, why can’t I scream?

I’m alive… but buried in the—

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[Breakdown – slow, crushing]

(silence → single hit)

WHISPER:

Wake. Me. Up.

(drop)

BLEGH

Rip the skin, I don’t belong

This body’s just a borrowed wrong

Pull the plug—disconnect the lie

If this is living, let me die

(half-time chugs)

I DIED IN MY SLEEP—BUT I NEVER WOKE UP

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[Bridge – eerie clean, almost hollow]

If I fade, will I finally feel?

Or is numbness all that’s real?

Count the breaths, they don’t add up

I’m still here… but something’s cut

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[Final Chorus – layered, huge]

I’m alive but I’m buried in the dream

Velvet static swallowing me

Every heartbeat skips the truth

Am I waking up or phasing through?

Say my name—does it sound the same?

Or did I die in a different frame?

If I’m breathing, why can’t I scream?

I’m alive… but buried in the dream

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[Outro – glitch fade]

(distorted whisper looping)

Wake up… wake up… wake up…