Corrupted Memory

(An emotional, atmospheric electric guitar riff plays with a lot of space and delay)

(Soft vocal delivery)I found a folder buried in the vault.

Every single picture makes my chest lock up.

I try to open it, but the screen just spins...

(A sudden digital artifact sound interrupts)

This is where the damage begins.

(A driving, electronic mid-tempo drum pattern enters. The sub-bass is warm)

Looking at your face through a pixelated screen (I SEE YOU)

Trying to remember what we used to mean (WHAT WAS IT?)

The files are decaying, the colors turning black (FADING)

I’m clicking on the timeline but I can’t go back.

Your smile is glitching out, your eyes are full of noise (DISTORTED)

Just another memory that you completely destroyed.

(The drums drop out. A wall of beautiful, warm melodic chords swells up. The vocals soar higher in pitch, full of raw emotion.)

And it hurts to know that you are fading out!

Lost inside the static and the digital doubt!

I keep trying to read the lines...But the system is failing...

(A heavy, rising laser synth tears through the melody)

(Massive, triplet drum build-up)

FILE CORRUPTED!

(A huge, melodic wave of sound. Bright, crying supersaw synths blast on the chords)

Corrupted memory! (GET OUT!)

You’re tearing up the best of me! (IT HURTS!)

A ghost inside the mainframe!Nothing but a broken name!Corrupted memory! (DELETE!)

I’m throwing out the history! (BYE!)

Disconnect the wire...Watch it burn in the fire!

(The beat drops back into a punchy, aggressive trap rhythm. The vocal flow becomes faster and more bitter.)

Now the data is damaged, the sectors are dead (DEAD!)

I’m scrubbing the footage inside of my head (SCRUB IT)

You’re a virus I carried, a sickness I kept (TOXIC)

While you were out erasing every tear that I wept.

You’re a broken link, a page four-oh-four (NOT FOUND)

And I don't want to look at your face anymore!

(Absolute silence for a beat, A low, ominous digital hum grows in the background.)

Do you remember me?

Or am I just a corrupted memory?

(The deep, demonic sub-bass swells heavily)

System override...

(Whispered sharply) Delete.

(The heaviest drop of the song. The melodic chords are completely crushed by a biting, distorted square-wave bass)

Corrupted memory! (GET OUT!)

You’re tearing up the best of me! (IT HURTS!)

A ghost inside the mainframe!Nothing but a broken name!Corrupted memory! (DELETE!)

I’m throwing out the history! (BYE!)

Disconnect the wire...Watch it burn in the fire!

(The heavy instruments vanish, leaving a heavily glitched version of the intro's guitar riff. The audio repeatedly cuts out, mimicking a scratched CD or skipping digital file.)

M-M-Memory...

C-C-Corrupt...

(Sound of a digital error pop-up chime, followed by an abrupt, clean cut to dead silence)