The Room Divided

Electronica post-hardcore with cyber-metal weight, dense but clear modern mix; high-register female vocals shift from breathless rhythmic clean lines and soaring belted melodies to piercing fry screams and deep gutturals, tightly doubled in choruses; cold analog synth pulses, granular glitches, down-tuned seven-string chugs, distorted bass, punchy double-kick drums, sharp snare, china accents, dramatic high-register lead guitar; urgent 172 BPM drive with half-time pre-chorus drops, abrupt electronic transitions, explosive widescreen choruses, and a catastrophic final breakdown

[Intro]
The room has learned my name
Dust turns slowly in the lamp
A helmet waits beside the bed
With someone else asleep inside

[Verse 1]
I woke beneath a borrowed ceiling
Cold brass clock, eleven teeth
Every portrait faced the window
Every window faced beneath

The suit on the velvet sofa
Held its breath against the seam
I touched the glass and saw my hands
Already reaching back at me

[Pre-Chorus]
Pull me out of this body
Pull the lock from my tongue
If the other side is breathing
Then tell me what I’ve become

[Chorus]
I am the door and the thing behind it
I am the wound that refuses to close
Call me back from the room divided
Before the mirror swallows us whole

I will tear through the silver
I will bite through the frame
If you wake in my reflection
You will answer to my name

[Verse 2]
The astronaut turned toward me
Though the visor showed no face
A radio hissed three numbers
Then the walls began to rotate

My shadow wore a spacesuit
My heartbeat knocked in code
I watched it stand inside the glass
And leave my body on the floor

[Pre-Chorus]
Pull me out of this body
Pull the lock from my tongue
If the other side is breathing
Then tell me what I’ve become

[Chorus]
I am the door and the thing behind it
I am the wound that refuses to close
Call me back from the room divided
Before the mirror swallows us whole

I will tear through the silver
I will bite through the frame
If you wake in my reflection
You will answer to my name

[Breakdown]
Wake up
Wake up
The room is not a room
The face is not my face
The voice is coming through

[Bridge]
No more borrowed skin
No more sleeping in
No more asking which side
Gets to keep the pulse within

[Final Chorus]
I am the door and the thing behind it
I am the wound that learned how to grow
Call me back from the room divided
Or watch me drag the whole world below

I will tear through the silver
I will bite through the frame
When you wake in my reflection
There will be nobody left to name

[Outro]
The clock forgets the hour
The helmet fogs from within
A hand appears behind the glass
And wears the shape of my skin

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[Intro] The room has learned my name Dust turns slowly in the lamp A helmet waits beside the bed With someone else asleep inside [Verse 1] I woke beneath a borrowed ceiling Cold brass clock, eleven teeth Every portrait faced the window Every window faced beneath The suit on the velvet sofa Held its breath against the seam I touched the glass and saw my hands Already reaching back at me [Pre-Chorus] Pull me out of this body Pull the lock from my tongue If the other side is breathing Then tell me what I’ve become [Chorus] I am the door and the thing behind it I am the wound that refuses to close Call me back from the room divided Before the mirror swallows us whole I will tear through the silver I will bite through the frame If you wake in my reflection You will answer to my name [Verse 2] The astronaut turned toward me Though the visor showed no face A radio hissed three numbers Then the walls began to rotate My shadow wore a spacesuit My heartbeat knocked in code I watched it stand inside the glass And leave my body on the floor [Pre-Chorus] Pull me out of this body Pull the lock from my tongue If the other side is breathing Then tell me what I’ve become [Chorus] I am the door and the thing behind it I am the wound that refuses to close Call me back from the room divided Before the mirror swallows us whole I will tear through the silver I will bite through the frame If you wake in my reflection You will answer to my name [Breakdown] Wake up Wake up The room is not a room The face is not my face The voice is coming through [Bridge] No more borrowed skin No more sleeping in No more asking which side Gets to keep the pulse within [Final Chorus] I am the door and the thing behind it I am the wound that learned how to grow Call me back from the room divided Or watch me drag the whole world below I will tear through the silver I will bite through the frame When you wake in my reflection There will be nobody left to name [Outro] The clock forgets the hour The helmet fogs from within A hand appears behind the glass And wears the shape of my skin

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