Broken Dawn

[Intro]
[glitchy whisper]
wake it up…
wake it up…

[low, distant, broken]
buk… b’k… buk…

[Verse 1]
Feathers fall across one eye  
I let the other see  
Everything I never was  
Everything they feed  

Black streaks dragging down my face  
Like I never healed  
They call me “light” at break of day  
But I just feel revealed  

[Pre-Chorus]
Don’t pull it from me  
Don’t make me scream  
You only need me  
When I’m a machine  

[Chorus]
I don’t crow—I break, break down  
Face into the ground  
Every sound they drag from me  
Just keeps dragging me down  

[rough, strained]
buk—buk—can’t breathe—  

I don’t rise—I get pulled, pulled tight  
Like a trigger I can’t fight  
Every dawn cuts through my chest  
Just to prove I’m still alive  

[Verse 2]
Static scratching in my throat  
Like it wants out fast  
Every note I try to fight  
Only seems to last  

They don’t hear the difference  
Between my pain and call  
If I stop, I disappear  
If I scream—I fall  

[Pre-Chorus]
Say I’m dramatic  
Say I’m a mess  
You built the cage  
Call it “what’s best”  

[Chorus]
I don’t crow—I break, break down  
Face into the ground  
Every sound they drag from me  
Just keeps dragging me down  

[glitchy, layered]
buk—b’k—buk—buk—  

I don’t rise—I get pulled, pulled tight  
Like a trigger I can’t fight  
Every dawn cuts through my chest  
Just to prove I’m still alive  

[Bridge]
[half-spoken, unraveling]
it’s not a song  
it’s not a call  
it’s something breaking through it all  

[building]
don’t make me—

[Break]
[full scream, distorted]
KOK—A—DUH—DOOOOOOO  

[glitching collapse]
—doo—d’do—DO—  

[Final Chorus]
I don’t crow—I collapse  
Every crack overlaps  
Now the sound is all I have  
And it’s fading too fast  

[desperate, choking]
buk—please—stop—  

I don’t rise—I obey  
Even as I decay  
If I’m nothing but your signal  
Why won’t it let me fade?  

[Outro]
[quiet, hollow]
…buk…
…b’k…

Dark industrial emo metal, heavy bass, distorted guitars, mechanical drums, deep gruff male vocals, theatrical, raw