[Intro – alt R&B]
City on a spine in the dark… drifting through a frozen sky
Every alley’s just a scar… every street a severed line
I can feel your heartbeat, rumbling in the rebar
Every time they fall in love, you light another star
[Verse 1 Alt - R&B to build]
I was raised in the rust, where the pulse runs thin
Taught the map of your veins like a catechism
Every bridge is a rib, every tower’s a tooth
They hired me to keep your secrets, then to carve your truth Got a blade made of bone from your ancient wrist
When I cut a new road, whole districts exist
Every contract signed is another incision
I’m the architect of mercy and a slow derision
[Pre‑Chorus]
Every choice they make… paints you in a different color
Gold when they’re brave… black when they turn on each other
They’re dancing on your arteries like it’s all they’ve got
They don’t hear you screaming in the bedrock
[Chorus – metalcore hook]
I keep you breathing while I bleed you dry…
I draw new veins across your sky…
Assassin in the concrete choir, singing over sirens and smoke
[Post-Chorus – whispered / R&B]
Shh… don’t wake the city
Shh… don’t show the scars
I swear I’ll lay you gently
As I take you apart
[Verse 2 – heavier]
They pray to the skyline, think it answers back
Neon lit confessions on a spinal track
But I hear your wheezing through the subway rails
Every festival of light is just another nail Council wants progress, “open up a new vein”
They don’t see the seizures when I carve their lanes
You convulse under cathedrals, tremor under clubs
I taste rust in the rain when your heartbeat thuds I’m the ghost in the zoning, the knife in the plan
Blueprint butcher with a god in my hands
Every overpass is a noose you wear
And I tighten it a little every fiscal year
[Pre‑Chorus – screamed / sung]
Every wish they make… drills deeper into your marrow
Halo made of power lines, crown of rusted sparrows
They’re building their forever on your final thoughts
While your eyes roll white in the bedrock
[Chorus – metalcore]
I keep you breathing while I bleed you dry…
I draw new veins across your sky…
Assassin in the concrete choir, singing over sirens and smoke
I’m the hand that keeps your heart on fire…
While I cut you down a little slower with every road I stroke
I keep you alive… as I kill my god in strokes
[Bridge – breakdown]
Veins glow red when they choose forgiveness…
Blue when they choose the gun…
Green when they sell their neighbors…
White when they try to run… So grip my blade with your phantom hand…
Guide my cut through your own old land…
If I stop now, they all go dark…
If I go on, you lose your heart…
[Final chorus] (alt-R&B/ Half Scream)
I keep you breathing while I bleed you dry… assassin in your veins, killing my god one heartbeat at a time.
[Outro] (Soft)
City on a spine gone dark… I’m the last sin buried in a dead god’s heart.
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