[Verse 1]
[Instrumentation: Explosive, chaotic start. Blast beats and a dissonant, shrieking guitar lead over a sludgy rhythm. Vocals are a desperate, high-pitched fry scream.]
You’re the static trapped inside my skull
The final refuge when the earth goes dull
Let your anatomy swallow me down
Swallow me down!
My skin is shredded, my spirit decays
Poetry rots in the mess that we made
Let your anatomy swallow me down
Swallow me down!
[Music suddenly drops to just a haunting, clean guitar and synthetic koto plucking, close vocals]
Do you bleed the same as I do?
Are we crushed inside the teeth of the divine?
Will the bleeding stop if we sink lower?
[Chorus]
[Instrumentation: A massive, soaring wall of sound. Beautiful, reverb-drenched clean vocals over heavy, open power chords. The contrast to the verse is extreme.]
So let the cavern close around!
I wanna sink where no one else can
Ever be found
[Verse 2]
[Instrumentation: The heavy guitars return, but slower and groovier. A bouncing, mid-tempo metalcore riff. Vocals are a rhythmic, mid-range growl.]
Chambers of muscle, the heat of the dark
We step directly into the ache
My only hunger, swallow me down
Swallow me down!
[Refrain]
[Instrumentation: Tension building. Snare drum rolls getting faster and faster. Guitars chugging an ascending, math-metal pattern.]
[Clean, strained vocals building into a scream]
The outside world is always bleeding in
I want to hoard you underneath my skin
Walk with me past the closing of the jaw
So I can hoard you underneath my skin!
[Chorus]
[Instrumentation: Explosive return to the massive, atmospheric wall of sound. Double-kick drums driving the momentum.]
So let the cavern close around!
I wanna sink where no one else can
Ever be found
[Instrumental Break / Breakdown]
[Instrumentation: The signature sludgy bass drop. Guitars drop out entirely. It’s just an impossibly heavy, distorted bass guitar playing a filthy, syncopated djent groove against a China cymbal and kick drum. It sounds wet, claustrophobic, and violent. Fuzz pedals pushed to the absolute limit.]
[Guttural, deathcore-style low growl over the bass]:
Devourrrrrr!
[Refrain]
[Instrumentation: The bass groove continues, but the clean, haunting vocals return, floating eerily over the heavy rhythm.]
The outside world is always bleeding in
I want to hoard you underneath my skin
[Outro]
[Instrumentation: The full band slams back in for the heaviest part of the song. Impossibly slow, doom-metal chugs. The vocals break down into pure, unfiltered anguish.]
[Screaming]
Do you bleed the same as I do?!
Do you bleed the same as I do?!
Do you bleed the same as I do?!
[Music cuts abruptly. A final, whispered breath]
Do you bleed the same as I do?
Atlantica
