Run If You Hear Me

[Verse 1]
(M) Breath burning
Feet on glass
Street looks empty
Shadows mass
(F) You say “keep going”
But your voice cracks
I see handprints
On our backs
[Chorus]
(Both) Run if you hear me
Call your name from the dark
Run till your lungs bleed
Till your ribs feel sharp
(M) Don’t you look over
(F) Don’t you look back
(Both) If it gets closer
We’re never coming back
[Verse 2]
(F) Keys in hand
But the door won’t move
Handle shaking
Like it knows the truth
(M) Something laughing
In the walls
Every echo
Sounds like “fall”
[Chorus]
(Both) Run if you hear me
Call your name from the dark
Run till your lungs bleed
Till your ribs feel sharp
(M) Don’t you look over
(F) Don’t you look back
(Both) If it gets closer
We’re never coming back
[Bridge]
[Drums drop to half-time
Distant screams in the reverb]
(F) If I trip
Will you drag me? (hey!)
(M) If I freeze
Will you scream?
(F) Is it wearing our faces?
(M) Is this some dying dream?
(Both, whispered) Don’t stop
Don’t stop
Don’t stop
[Chorus]
(Both) Run if you hear me
Tear your name from the dark
Run till your heart stops
Like a torn-apart spark
(M) I feel it breathing
Right on our backs
(F) I hear it laughing
Bending all the tracks
(Both) Run if you hear me
Till the sky goes black
If it pulls us under
We’re never coming back

Aggressive cinematic rock with dual male/female vocals trading lines; distorted guitars chug over a frantic double-time beat, subby bass hits on downbeats. Verses stay tight and tense with whispered call-and-response; chorus explodes in unison shouts and octave harmonies. Short eerie synth stabs and reverse FX punctuate transitions; bridge drops to half-time with echoing vocals before a final all-out sprint to the end.