[Intro | 72 BPM | sub-bass drone | dissonant guitar harmonics | industrial ambience | whispered vocals] There is a room inside my head where nobody speaks. No windows. No doors. Just memories with teeth. [Low guttural] And every night they wake up hungry. [Verse 1 | 170 BPM | blackened tremolo | relentless blast beats | cavernous gutturals] In the mind of a madman there is no holy ground. Only old wounds wearing different faces, dragging their reanimated remnants back out of the ground. Fear became a language. Pain became a pulse. And somewhere in the wreckage I forgot which one was mine. I wasn't born with blood on my hands. I just learned what desperation does when nobody comes to stop it. [High scream] I WAS A CHILD WHEN THE DAMAGE STARTED. [Blast beat acceleration] NOW I'M THE THING THAT DAMAGE MADE. [Pre-Chorus | 120 BPM | distorted bass | dissonant guitar swell | layered screams] They call it anger because that's easier than asking where it came from. They call me broken because nobody wants to count the pieces. [Chorus | 105 BPM | crushing guitars | huge bass | blast beats] Wake up from the hell That you have been dealt It's time you realized Just what the hell you felt There is no fear in life That can't be overcome Hatred dwelling deep inside For what you have become [Verse 2 | 190 BPM | technical deathcore riffing | blast beats | shrieks] Take a look at your life. Tell me what remains. A handful of promises rotting underneath the weight of their names. Dreams? Hope? I remember those. They used to live here too. Now there's only a heartbeat and something underneath it that wants me dead. [Low guttural] CAN YOU FEEL IT? [High scream] THE THING YOU BURIED IS STILL BREATHING. [Breakdown | 78 BPM | crushing sub drops | syncopated chugs | no orchestration] I LOOKED INTO THE GRAVE. [Silence] IT LOOKED BACK. I SAW MY FACE. [Full band] AND I RECOGNIZE THE FUCKING THING STARING BACK. [Verse 3 | 185 BPM | dissonant tremolo | chaotic percussion | industrial noise] This hell isn't fire. It's memory. It's waking up inside the same nightmare and realizing you've been awake for years. The demon in my dreams doesn't chase me anymore. He waits. Because he knows I'll eventually come back to him. Is that me? Is that me? Is that [High scream] ME?!!? [Chorus | 105 BPM | full-band impact | layered screams] Wake up from the hell That you have been dealt It's time you realized Just what the hell you felt There is no fear in life That can't be overcome Hatred dwelling deep inside For what you have become [Bridge | 100 BPM | bass drone | heartbeat percussion | feedback] I can't see my tears anymore. They disappear before they reach my face. Everything inside me has turned the same color. [Whisper] Red. [Low guttural] And I keep asking myself am I surviving this? Or am I simply getting better at becoming it? [Silence] Insanity. Such a clean fucking word for something this filthy. [Build | escalating drums | feedback | dissonant guitar] If you opened my skull you wouldn't find madness. You'd find every moment I never survived. Every voice I swallowed. Every wound I called just fine. Every version of myself I had to kill just to make it to tomorrow. [Massive scream] THIS ISN'T A DEMON. THIS IS WHAT'S LEFT WHEN THE HUMAN BEING RUNS OUT OF PLACES TO HIDE. [Final Breakdown | 62 BPM | monstrous low-end | multiple false drops | gutturals] Tell me! is the bleeding real? [Silence] Tell me! [Deep guttural] In the mind of a madman~
