STILL BREATHING WRONG

Tuning: Drop B

Tempo: 150 BPM (breakdowns slam to ~75)

Style Notes:

• Short lines

• Lots of space

• Vocals feel confrontational, almost shouted in your face

• Breakdowns are abrupt and ugly (in the best way)

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Intro (feedback + panic chords)

I NEVER LEARNED

HOW TO LIVE LIKE THIS

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Verse 1 (Barked growls)

Teeth clenched

Fists closed

I was raised in survival mode

Every room feels like a threat

Every breath a debt

I don’t sleep

I wait

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Pre-Chorus (Higher screams, tension building)

You say move on

I say prove it

You say heal

I say you ruined it

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Chorus (Gang vocals, ugly and loud)

STILL BREATHING — WRONG

STILL HERE — BUT GONE

CUT ME OUT

I’LL ROT ALONG

STILL BREATHING — WRONG

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Verse 2 (Low, feral growls)

Built me up just to spit me out

Call it love, call it helping out

I learned pain before my name

Now you’re shocked I’m not okay

I carry years in my jaw

Bite down hard

Say nothing at all

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Pre-Chorus 2 (Stop-start screams)

You want peace

I want truth

You fed me lies

Now I bite through

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Chorus (Shorter, meaner)

STILL BREATHING — WRONG

NO CURE

NO SONG

I’M THE PROBLEM

YOU PROLONG

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BREAKDOWN 1 (Sudden drop — caveman chugs)

(Long pause)

DON’T.

TOUCH.

ME.

(Chug — chug — stop)

YOU DON’T GET TO FEEL CLEAN.

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Bridge (Dissonant ringing chords)

I tried to be soft

In a world that chews

I tried to forgive

But I remember you

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FINAL BREAKDOWN (Knocked Loose–level ignorant)

(Half-time, gang vocals)

STILL — BREATHING — WRONG

STILL — HERE — FUCKED — UP

(Beat drops out)

I.

DON’T.

OWE.

YOU.

(Everything back in)

BLEGH.

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Outro (feedback, last hit)

Still breathing wrong.

And I don’t want fixing.