Stay in the Ashes

[Verse 1]
Eyes wide, three days
Jaw tight, heart racing
Empty fridge, full ashtray
Clock laughing in my face
Missed calls, red glow
Friends say I’m “moving strange”
I keep shrugging, “yeah, I know”
Still I sit inside this cage
[Chorus]
Stay in the ashes
I burn, I break, I breathe, I’m staying
Dancing with damage
I fall, I fail, I fight, I’m staying
Storm in my skull, it crashes
But I bend, don’t snap, I’m staying
Stay in the ashes
I’m still here in the smoke, I’m staying
[Verse 2]
Hole in the wall
From a night I don’t remember
Bills on the floor
Like dead leaves in December
Hands shake, still I light
Another plan, another match
Every loss, every lie
I stitch them in, patch by patch
[Bridge]
[low vocal register] If I vanish, who wins?
If I cave, what then?
I got scars, not sins
I’m the glitch that won’t mend [distorted ad-libs: "won't mend, won't mend"]
[Chorus]

rap, Dark manic lo-fi trap at 190 BPM, distorted wobble bass choking the low end under crackling vinyl hiss. Punchy, clipped kicks and snare with relentless triplet hats, eerie warped synths bending off-key. Smoky, slightly overdriven male vocals half-rapped, half-murmured; hook explodes with doubled vocals and pitched ad-libs while verses stay close-mic and claustrophobic., lo-fi