[Verse 1]
Down in the gears where the engines groan
Where the pipes breathe smoke like a dying home
A cube lay still in the rust and grime
Ticking out of step with the hands of time
A man with wires inside his brain
Thought he could harness what he couldn’t name
Turned the key—just one mistake
And something old began to wake
[Chorus]
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—Don’t look inside
City heartbeat out of line
Feel it crawling in your mind
Pulling every thread of time
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—you can’t contain
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—it won’t remain
Every second splits in two
Nothing here is safe from you
[Verse 2]
No explosion, no bright flare
Just silence twisting in the air
Then a scream no one could hear
But it lived inside their fear
Minds all cracked like shattered glass
Time bent wrong, the moment passed
Now it drifts through alleyways
Counting down forgotten days
[Chorus]
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—Don’t look inside
City heartbeat out of line
Feel it crawling in your mind
Pulling every thread of time
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—you can’t contain
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—it won’t remain
Every second splits in two
Nothing here is safe from you
[Bridge]
Clockwork shadows crawling thin
Something scratching from within
Not alive—but not yet gone
Echoes where the dead belong
Every time they try to bind
It rewrites the edge of time
No control, no kill switch found
Just that broken, endless sound
[Sax Break / Instrumental Cue]
(low brass pulse, warped ticking, distorted sax melody rising)
[Verse 3]
Barons watch with hollow eyes
Counting profit, counting lies
But the engine starts to shake
Every system starts to break
From the cracks crawl things not meant
From a future never spent
Every gear begins to stall
As the void rewrites it all
[Chorus]
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—Don’t look inside
City heartbeat out of line
Feel it crawling in your mind
Pulling every thread of time
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—you can’t contain
P.A.N.D.O.R.A.—it won’t remain
Every second splits in two
Nothing here is safe from you
[Outro]
No will, no voice, no grand design
Just a door that won’t decline
And if you hear that distant tone…
You’re already not alone
Mr_Mundy