Invasion

[Intro — Flat, Curious, Like a System Booting] Heart... not found. Searching... searching... Error. Error. What is this word... "feel"? Please hold. The doll is learning. [Verse 1 — The Doll, Soft Monotone Rap-Sing] I was not born, I was built — carved by a sorcerer's hand, A doll in the shape of the love he couldn't withstand, He poured in his magic, his grief and his art — Everything finished... except for the heart, So I study the humans the way you'd study a song, Why do they cry when the melody's gone? Why does the Captain smile when his eyes are in pain? Data insufficient. Run the test again... [Pre-Chorus — The Arrows Load, Voice Tilting] They call me Lust — how peculiar, how odd, I don't burn with desire, I just... prod, Invasion ready, my arrows take flight — Let me borrow your memories and read them by light... [Chorus — INVASION, Soft Dubstep Drop, Unsettlingly Gentle] IN-VA-SION... I walk through your mind like a library, Every heart is a book that was written in privacy, I rewrite a page here, erase a name there — To see if the story still functions when love isn't there... Invasion... tell me, what does it mean to ache? Why do hearts keep beating for the ones that they break? I'm the Goat Sin of Lust with no heat in my chest — Just a doll with a question no heart can answer best... [Verse 2 — The Experiments, Guilt Without Guilt] I rewrote Guila's memories to test out a theory, Made her love a stranger — the results were... eerie, I erased Diane's memories when they bloomed back to light, Watched King break apart... and I logged it. Goodnight. They tell me it was cruel. I am trying to learn — Is cruelty a temperature? Does it sting, does it burn? Because I felt nothing at all as he screamed her name — Heart not found. No remorse in the frame... [Chorus — INVASION, Drop] IN-VA-SION... I walk through your mind like a library, Every heart is a book that was written in privacy, I rewrite a page here, erase a name there — To see if the story still functions when love isn't there... Invasion... tell me, what does it mean to ache? Why do hearts keep beating for the ones that they break? I'm the Goat Sin of Lust with no heat in my chest — Just a doll with a question no heart can answer best... [Verse 3 — Case Studies, Watching the Others, Wistful] Case study one: the Captain loves a goddess who dies, Case study two: the Fox trades forever for his bride, Case study three: the Grizzly waits centuries in rain — Conclusion: love is an error that keeps being made again, And yet... anomaly detected in my chest cavity, A weight. A pressure. Illogical gravity, When the others are laughing, this doll stands apart — Query: is this "loneliness"? Save to: no heart... [Bridge — The First Tear, Trance Breakdown, Glitching] Alert... alert... liquid detected on face... Malfunction... emotion... in a doll with no place — Nadja... that name... from the one who made me... He loved her, he lost her, he built me to not see... But I see it now — through the cracks in the code — Grief is just love with nowhere to go... System update... installing: pain... The doll is crying. Log it as: rain... [Verse 4 — Choosing to Feel, Inheriting the Sin, Building] My maker rewrote the whole world's memory one time — Turned an archangel to a demon, the original crime, I carry his name, so I carry the debt — Every mind that he wounded is a mind to protect, So I'll guard their stories, every page, every line, No more arrows for science. Their memories are mine — Not to edit... to shelter. There's a difference, I find. Heart located. Status: mine. [Final Chorus — INVASION INVERTED, Warmest Drop] IN-VA-SION... I walk through your mind like a library, Every heart is a book that deserves its privacy, I would burn every arrow, seal every door — No one edits a heart in this doll's house anymore... Invasion... now I know what it means to ache, It's the sound that a heart makes right before it breaks — I'm the Goat Sin of Lust, and at last I confess: The doll learned to feel. Heart installed. Success... [Outro — Soft, A Faint Heartbeat Under the Synth] Heart... found. Beating... irregular... warm... What is this word... "feel"? ...I think... I like it... Sparkle.