[INTRO]
[Low drone. Distant static. A voice, flat, hollow, barely there:]
"You think I'm still alive? That's cute. Watch."
[A slow, heavy heartbeat. A machine powering down. Then—nothing. The track breathes in the silence.]
---
[VERSE 1]
I don't remember when it stopped
The feeling, the fire, the want
Just woke up one day and the color was grey
And the thing in my chest was a haunt
They look at me and see a pilot
A mercenary with a gun
But I'm just a shell that never fell
A war that was already won
By the rot, by the cold
By the quiet in my head
I stopped fighting to survive
I'm just too dead to be dead
---
[PRE-CHORUS]
You hear a heartbeat
I hear a clock
Counting down to nothing
Tick. Tock.
---
[CHORUS]
Already dead, just haven't stopped
The rot set in, the pulse just dropped
Already dead, still in the fight
A corpse that forgot how to die right
Already dead, don't ask me why
The light went out, the well ran dry
Already dead, been dead for years
I'm just the last one who hasn't disappeared
---
[VERSE 2]
They scream when they fight
I just breathe
They beg when they lose
I just leave
There's no rage left to fuel me
No hope left to lose
Just the habit of moving
The muscle memory of choose
Fire, dodge, fire, fall
I've done it all before
The only thing that's different now
Is I don't care anymore
---
[PRE-CHORUS]
You hear a heartbeat
I hear a clock
Counting down to nothing
Tick. Tock.
---
[CHORUS]
Already dead, just haven't stopped
The rot set in, the pulse just dropped
Already dead, still in the fight
A corpse that forgot how to die right
Already dead, don't ask me why
The light went out, the well ran dry
Already dead, been dead for years
I'm just the last one who hasn't disappeared
---
[BRIDGE]
[Track pulls back. Just a single, decaying synth note. Voice, almost a whisper.]
You want to know what broke me?
Nothing. That's the truth.
There wasn't a moment, a loss, a war
Just a slow rot from my youth
I woke up one morning and the fire was out
And I couldn't remember what brought it about
So I stopped trying to find it
Stopped trying to care
And now I'm just here
And now I'm just—
---
[FINAL CHORUS]
[Slow, oppressive. The track decays in real time. Glitches, stutters, falls apart.]
Already dead...
Just haven't stopped...
The rot set in...
The pulse just dropped...
Already dead...
Still in the fight...
A corpse that forgot...
How to die—
[BOOM — cut. Silence.]
---
[OUTRO]
[Static. A flatline. Rotten Fly's voice, hollow, distant:]
"You think I'm still alive?"
[Pause.]
"That's cute."
[Silence.]
AsheTheHyena
