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This is Not My Bed - sleep mechanism (for EP)

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[ENGINE OVERRIDE: AVOID FEMALE HUMMING, AVOID FEMALE MOANING] [Intro] [Minimalist] [Instrumental section] Ohhh 😱😱😱😱 [Verse 1] I woke before my body did, before my hands were mine; the ceiling leaned too close to me, the walls forgot their lines. My tongue lay still as silver, my lungs refused the air; and something in the corner was learning I was there. [Pre-chorus] [Relentless build] [Rising dread] The clock forgot its counting, the door forgot the hall; the air above my open mouth grew heavy, black, and tall. And somewhere in the silence, where the waking world had bled, I heard the dark lean closer to the room around my bed. [Chorus] [Haunting, powerful] This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; something old is breathing in the rafters of my head. This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; there are fingers in the darkness and a weight above my chest. [Verse 2] First it was only shadow, a stain the lamp forgot; a man-shaped piece of midnight where the moon should not have stopped. He lengthened by the bureau, he gathered at the chair; he did not need a mouth to grin, I felt it in the air. [Pre-chorus] The clock forgot its counting, the door forgot the hall; the air above my open mouth grew heavy, black, and tall. And somewhere in the silence, where the waking world had bled, I heard the dark lean closer to the room around my bed. [Chorus] This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; something old is breathing in the rafters of my head. This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; there are fingers in the darkness and a weight above my chest. [Verse 3] Then came the brim above him, the crown without a face; the room grew very ancient when the Hat Man took his place. He stood there like a verdict, he stood there like a priest; as if my fear had summoned him, as if my breath were feast. [Instrumental section] [Bridge] [Rhythmic storytelling] Like Fuseli’s dream gothic painting nightmare on the breast; Mara rode the sleeping ribs and fed where women pressed. In Japan, kanashibari binds the body to the dread; in Mexico, the shadow waits beside the haunted bed. Old hags are in the doorway, incubi are at their prayer; every age has named him, silent As they found him waiting there. [Chorus] [intimate dread] This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; something old is breathing in the rafters of my head. This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; there are fingers in the darkness and a weight above my chest. [Verse 4] [Darker and smaller] But dread becomes familiar when it visits every night; a monster loses majesty With each repeated fright. I learned the shape of stillness, I learned the taste of stone; I learned that I had corridors That he had never known. [Verse 5] [predatory whisper] So come then, brim and shadow, come closer if you dare; you thought you found a body, you found a house of darkened stairs. You wanted one small terror, one sleeper to consume; but I have been collecting dark in every locked-up room. [Instrumental] [Final chorus] [Explosive gothic reveal] [Layered female harmonies] This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; this is where I keep the things that embrace the dark and dead. There is a room beneath the room, a dark beneath the dark; if you came to taste my terror, Then you may choke upon this heart. This is not my bedroom, this is not my bed; this is where the dark comes home and kneels beside my head. this is where the dark comes home and kneels beside my head. [Outro] [Instrumental section] Ohhh [music fade out]