[Intro — Ghost, distant, radio-filtered] (Remember me... remember me...) Something's rotten in the stars tonight [Verse 1 — Hamlet] My father's ghost on the station wall A crown of poison, a kingdom's fall He begged me "avenge" through the static and cold — nineteen years old with a dead man's gold They say I'm mad — maybe madness sees clear when the throne is a lie and the air tastes of fear [Pre-Chorus — Ophelia] Come to the water, come to the dark I'll wait where the drowned stars are Don't think so long, love — thinking is death come and lay down your breath [Chorus — Both] To be, or not to be (to be, or not to be) that is the question burning in me something is rotten, and it's coming for me to be — or not to be (come home to the silence...) [Verse 2 — Hamlet] The play is the thing — I'll make the king see his murder replayed on the screens above me a mirror, a mask, and the guilt breaks true — but I wait, and I wait, and the waiting kills too [Interlude — Ophelia, distant, radio-filtered, male lead silent] There's rosemary... that's for remembrance... (she drifts into static, into stars) [Bridge — the duel, urgent, trading] [Hamlet] They sent the machines with the poisoned points [Ophelia] one touch, my love, and it's done [Hamlet] a hit — a hit — the venom in my joints [Ophelia] the undiscovered country's begun [Both] the cup, the crown, the queen, the blade — every debt in the dark gets paid [Final Chorus — Both] To be, or not to be (or not to be) that was the question — now it sets me free something was rotten, and it came for me to be — or not to be [Outro] [Hamlet] The rest... is silence. [Ophelia] (goodnight, sweet prince)
