Eridium In My Veins

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Prompt / Lyrics
"First time was an accident. Second time was a choice. Third time… I stopped pretending I had a choice."

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[VERSE 1]

First hit. Clean. Like a wire in the spine.
Colors got louder. Silence got teeth.
Second hit. Deeper. The walls started bending.
I saw the code. I saw the machine.
Third hit. I didn't come back for a week.
Something was crawling under my skin.
Something that whispered "let me in."

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[HOOK]

ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY BLOOD.
I USED TO BE SOMEONE. NOW I'M JUST THE FLOOD.
ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY TEETH.
I OPEN MY MOUTH AND THE LIGHT POURS OUT.
ERIDIUM. ERIDIUM. LET ME OUT.

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[VERSE 2]

The glow started small. A vein in my arm.
Now it's in my eyes. Now it's in my chest.
Now I'm not sure where I end and the rest
Begins. The purple. The hum. The song.
The voice that says "you've been wrong
Your whole life. This is what you were made for."

I don't sleep anymore. I just dream awake.
Another shard. Another line. Another hit.
Another piece of me that doesn't fit.

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[BRIDGE]

"Do you know what Eridium dreams about? It dreams of blood. It dreams of bone. It dreams of a body to call its own.

I gave it mine. Now I'm not sure where I end and it begins."

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[VERSE 3]

My mother wouldn't recognize me.
My friends are dead or they're afraid.
I don't blame them. I'm afraid too.
My fingers are longer. My teeth are sharper.
My reflection's a stranger.
The purple is spreading. Up my neck. Down my spine.
Every day a little more of me isn't mine.
I used to have dreams. A future. A plan.
Now I just want to feel whole again.
But that version of me died way back when.

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[BREAKDOWN]

[Whispered:]

"They say Eridium is a resource. A way to build the future."

[Screamed:]
IT BUILDS NOTHING. IT TAKES EVERYTHING.
IT CRAWLS INSIDE AND IT WEARS YOUR SKIN.

[Spoken:]

"I'm not addicted to the purple light."

[Screamed:]
I AM THE PURPLE. I AM THE LIGHT.
THERE IS NO ME. THERE IS ONLY THE GLOW.

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[FINAL HOOK]

ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY BLOOD.
I USED TO BE SOMEONE. NOW I'M JUST THE FLOOD.
ERIDIUM IN MY VEINS. ERIDIUM IN MY TEETH.
I OPEN MY MOUTH AND THE LIGHT POURS OUT.
ERIDIUM. ERIDIUM. I'M NOT COMING OUT.

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[OUTRO]

"If you find me… don't wake me. I'm somewhere in the purple. Somewhere I don't have to remember what I used to be.

It's beautiful here. I'm not anything anymore."