[Intro] [low male whisper, distant] I won't turn around... You said you like it better when nobody knows you're there... So I'll stay right here... And let you disappear. [Verse 1] [deep close-mic male vocal] Boots stuck to the basement floor somebody kicked the old steel door open again... Cold air crawling through the room I saw you standing in the gloom and looked away... There's a weight beneath the music I can see it when it moves through you... But I won't call it broken... I won't give it a name... [Pre-Chorus] [low whispered doubles] Lower... lower... Let the whole room come crashing down... You can take it... You can take it... I know... [Chorus] [heavy guitars enter, deep male lead with distant ethereal female harmonies] You're a soft animal under all that weight... Moving through the noise like you're trying to escape... I won't make it beautiful won't clean it up for you... If you want the dirt if you want the noise... I'll let the whole damn room shake loose... [Instrumental] [sludge guitar riff] [deep techno pulse] [low humming vocal textures] [Verse 2] [trip-hop drums, intimate baritone] My cigarette died in the glass hours ago... I forgot about it... I watched you dancing by the wall eyes closed... Like nothing in this world could touch you... Maybe that's religion... Maybe we're just killing time... Either way... I won't move closer... Not unless you ask me to. [Build] [techno kick intensifies] [layered male whispers] One step... two steps... body... floor... One step... two steps... You said... More... [Drop] [crushing sludge guitars + techno kick] MORE! [Chorus] [powerful gravelly male vocals, ghostly female harmonies] You're a soft animal under all that weight... Moving through the sound until you lose your shape... I won't make it beautiful won't clean it up for you... You want the dirt... You want the noise... You want something you can feel... So feel it. [Breakdown] [dark ambient drones] [low almost-spoken vocal] You said you don't need saving tonight... Good. I wasn't trying to save you. You need the room too loud... your hair across your face... your lungs working harder... And maybe... I need the same. Maybe that's why I'm still standing here... On the other side of all this noise. [whisper] Wanting nothing... from you. [Final Drop] [distorted guitars, pounding techno, male/female spectral harmonies] Soft animal... heavy heart... I'm a heavy animal falling apart... Let it drag... let it hurt... Let the bass shake the dirt... From both of us... Soft animal... heavy heart... Different shadows... same damn dark... No salvation... no last words... Just two bodies beneath the hurt... [Instrumental — enormous sludge/techno crescendo] [Outro] [guitar feedback dissolving into ambience] I won't turn the lights on yet... [long pause] I know... You're still here. [quiet male whisper] So am I.
