[Verse 1- Clean guitar, heavily chorused. Bass is a low rumble. Synths are glittery. Vocals are soft, almost mumbled close to the mic.]
I’ll be the villain if that’s what you need
I’ll plant the evidence, I’ll plant the seed
Let them point the fingers at my chest
While you stay clean, while you stay blessed.
They say this love is a sickness, a sin
A rot that is eating us from within
So I’ll drink the poison from your cup
I’ll swallow it down, I won’t look up.
[Instrumental Break- The drums enter with a driving, filtered beat. Guitars swell into a massive, fuzzy shoegaze wall of sound. It feels like a wave crashing over the listener. No vocals, just texture and melody.]
[Verse 2- Music drops out to just bass and kick drum. Vocals are grittier now, more urgent.]
I’m selfish, I know it, I want you to see
Just how much damage you’re doing to me
I love the way it hurts when we touch
I love that I love you a little too much.
If the world is a fire, then I am the wood
I’m burning it down just to stand where you stood
I don’t care if it’s wrong, I don’t care if it’s right
I’m killing the sun just to give you the night.
[Chorus- Full band kicks in. Soaring, desperate melody. Layers of vocal harmonies.]
I would die for you!
I would kill myself to make you new!
Let me take the fall, let me take the blame
Let me carve the guilt out of your name!
It’s a forbidden fruit, it’s a dangerous taste
But I won’t let a drop of it go to waste
I am the martyr, I am the lamb
Destroying myself for who I am!
[Build Up- Rhythm gets faster. Snare rolls intensify. Feedback rises in pitch.]
Watch me break.
Watch me break.
For your sake.
FOR YOUR SAKE!
I’LL DO IT!
I’LL DO IT!
[Heavy Breakdown- Tempo drops to half-time. Extremely low, downtuned guitars. Disgustingly heavy. Vocals are gutteral screams.]
MY BLOOD! ON YOUR HANDS!
[CHUG - CHUG - SQUEAL]
IT’S THE ONLY WAY TO UNDERSTAND!
I’D RATHER BE DEAD THAN BE APART!
I’M TEARING IT OUT! I’M TEARING IT OUT!
[SILENCE]
MY! HEART!
[SLOW, SLUDGY RIFF CONTINUES]
SELFISH!
SICK!
MINE!
[Chorus- The heavy guitars switch back to the shoegaze wall of sound. The vocals are strained, sounding exhausted but melodic.]
I would die for you!
I would kill myself to make you new!
Let me take the fall, let me take the blame
Let me carve the guilt out of your name!
It’s a forbidden fruit, it’s a dangerous taste
But I won’t let a drop of it go to waste!
[Ballad Outro- The distortion fades out rapidly. A piano and a lonely violin take over. The tempo slows down significantly.]
[Clean Vocals - Soft, falsetto, fading away]
You’re safe now.
The monster is gone.
You can walk in the light.
You can walk in the dawn.
Don’t mourn for me, love.
It was the only way.
[Piano chord sustains into a bass solo]
Atlantica
