[Intro- Clean electric guitar playing a very fast, two-handed tapping riff. It’s bright and clean. The drums are frenetic—lots of snare ghost notes and hi-hat splashes.]
[Verse 1- Math Rock style. Vocals are rhythmic, almost spoken, matching the staccato guitar hits]
Check the angle.
Check the light.
You walked in here to start a fight
With every pair of eyes in the room
Impending doom in a perfume bottle.
I’m doing the math but the numbers don’t stick
God damn, you make me sick
In the best way, in the worst way
I’m looking at you like it’s my last day on Earth.
[Pre-Chorus- Music swells. Reverb kicks in, blurring the technical riffs into a wash]
Don’t play coy.
Don’t play shy.
You know exactly what you’re doing to the guys.
[Vocal Fry]
You know exactly what you are.
[Chorus- Shoegaze Wall-of-Sound. Massive open chords. Vocals are high, melodic, and layered]
Holy shit!
You look so good it’s a tragedy!
You’re a walking, talking catastrophe!
I can’t look away, I can’t blink
I can’t hear myself, I can’t think!
Fuck the scenery, fuck the view
There is nothing in this city as bad as you!
[Verse 2- Metalcore switch. Heavy, distorted bass groove. Drums lock into a half-time bounce. Vocals are aggressive screams]
CONFIDENCE IS A WEAPON!
AND YOU’RE LOADED!
CLICK-CLACK!
Strutting around like you own the place
I want to wipe that smirk right off your face!
You bad bitch!
You cold witch!
You’re flipping the switch!
Stop acting like you don’t know the score
You leave ‘em jaw-dropped on the floor!
[Bridge- Technical Tapping Section returns, but now it’s distorted and dissonant. Tension builds.]
[Clean Vocals - Whispered]
It’s not fair.
It’s really not fair.
The way you fix your hair.
The way you stop the air.
[Voice gets louder]
You’re a glitch in the system.
You’re a flaw in the code.
YOU’RE ABOUT TO MAKE ME EXPLODE!
[The Breakdown]
[Silence for 2 beats]
[Spoken: Deep Voice]
DAMN.
[Explosive, low-end breakdown. Slow, disjointed, math-metal chugs]
YOU! LOOK! GOOD!
[CHUG - SQUEAL - CHUG]
FUCK!
[DISSONANT SCRAPE]
STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!
[CHUG - CHUG]
YOU KNOW I WANT IT!
YOU KNOW I NEED IT!
TALK SHIT! GET BIT!
DAMN YOU LOOK GOOD!
[Instrumental breakdown- droptuned E bass riffs sear with syncopated drums and hi-hats, deep cymbals clash with plucky high pitched guitar and crashing bass]
[Outro]
[The heavy guitars cut out. Returns to the clean, pretty tapping riff from the intro, but it slowly slows down and de-tunes as if the tape is melting.]
[Clean Vocals - Soft]
Yeah, you look so good.
You look so fucking good.
[Final chord rings out]
[Instrumental breakdown outro plays on]
Atlantica
