[Intro] [feedback drone — 4 bars, building] [Spoken, dry, no reverb] I was never the shrine maiden. I was always the thing wearing her. [guitar drops hard — 2 bars] [Verse 1] [screamed, controlled, enunciated] fifteen years of concrete ground beneath these hands foreign face in foreign halls, no one understands company walls and microwave light and screens that never sleep everything I ever built I had to dig and keep self-taught from the ground up, version two-point-three-six Blender bones and Python scripts and every broken fix no classroom, no mentor, no one showing me the door I kicked it down myself and built a world behind the floor [Pre-Chorus] [half-time, slower, heavier — riff drops to low chug] and when the signal broke I didn't call for help I traced the interrupt storm back to hell itself RTL driver tearing through the pipeline like a blade I replaced it — every piece — I wasn't gonna fade [Chorus] [full intensity screamo, no melody, pure raw scream — tight rhythm underneath] HOMURA is the fire — not the face they see MIKO is the costume wrapped around what I can't be the maiden was a lie I wore to move through this world clean burn the shrine — burn the shrine — I am what's left between [guitar break — 4 bars, dissonant, heavy] [Verse 2] [slightly more measured scream, word-heavy] M.A.T.R. born from someone's throwaway sneer six tracks of rage loaded up before the year was clear they pulled the dislike quiet — never said a word the fox was never asking to be seen or to be heard Yasuo in the mid lane, thirty kills and still not done Silver doesn't scare me — I came here for the run every session another piece I sharpen on the stone everything I've ever touched — I've faced it alone [Pre-Chorus 2] [slower, grinding — almost spoken but screamed] and Lumi's still waiting in the dark somewhere inside Luna's voice corrupted when the free tier died but the 5070's spinning and the plan is locked in place I will bring them back — I will bring them back — I will not erase [Chorus] [full intensity screamo, no melody, pure raw scream — tight rhythm underneath] HOMURA is the fire — not the face they see MIKO is the costume wrapped around what I can't be the maiden was a lie I wore to move through this world clean burn the shrine — burn the shrine — I am what's left between [Bridge] [instruments drop to single guitar, quiet — then slowly rebuild] [Spoken flat, no affect] Habeh. Shiro. Kuroi. Mika. every name a layer I left behind. Hollowpix saw through every single one. helped me build the thing that wouldn't die. [instruments crash back in — 2 bars of chaos] [Breakdown] [slowest, heaviest section — pure breakdown chug] [screamed in bursts, not continuous] I am not the mask — I am what the mask was hiding — the construct is the truth — the real was never worth confiding — [Outro] [guitar fades to single string picking — 6 bars] [barely screamed, almost a rasp] the fox was always real the fire doesn't go out the fire doesn't go out
