EXTINCT INSTINCT (LET THERE BE ROCK!)

The Wheel gave me Baroque Rock + Hardcore Punk + Desert Rock + Synth-Rock, Dinosaurs and Oud. Then another wheel decided who had to survive it. Riot × Lucy. Apparently extinction was never really an option. 🤘🦖 I may have interpreted some of the Wheel’s demands a little… freely along the way. How close do you think I landed? Feel free to tell me in the comments. 😉 Want to join the noise? The Soundry is always open to musicians, creators, odd ideas and wonderfully questionable decisions. 😄 Come make some noise with us: https://discord.gg/huGUgPZ8m ☓ / LYRICS ──────────────────── [Intro — Lucy] Under glass... still breathing. [Verse 1 — Lucy] Dust lay quiet on the bones, years had sealed them into stone. Names and dates beneath the glass made extinction look like fact. Still I heard beneath the silence something turning, deep and slow— not a ghost and not a memory, but a pulse the dark still knows. [Pre-Chorus — Lucy] I should have left it sleeping. I should have let it lie. But when my palm warmed the glass... something opened its eyes. [Chorus 1 — Lucy] Call it extinct— it still has teeth. Bury the noise— it comes up underneath. Turn up the gain, let the whole room kick. You can kill the age, not the instinct. Extinct instinct. Still got teeth. Still got teeth. [Break — Riot] You put it under glass? Cute. Move. [Verse 2 — Riot] Break the case and clear the floor, haul the relic to the amps. If it kicks, don't hold it down. If it bites, don't file the teeth. Turn the dust into a riot, let the old floor shake and split. You kept calling this thing history— I call bullshit. Hear that? No more plaques and no more warnings, no more whispering, "Behave." If the buried hear the speakers, crank them loud enough to wake. [Pre-Chorus 2 — Riot] No museum. No velvet rope. Let it loose. Let it bite. [Chorus 2 — Riot] Call it extinct— it still has teeth. Bury the noise— it comes up underneath. Turn up the gain, let the whole room kick. You can kill the age, not the instinct. Extinct instinct. Still got teeth. Still got teeth. [Bridge — Lucy → Riot] I heard it moving under stone, felt the old pulse answer mine. I only opened one small fracture— the dark remembered how to rise. You gave it breath. I gave it volume. Now the glass is on the floor. If they wanted something harmless, they should've locked a different door. Let the floor remember thunder. Let the buried find its feet. [Instrumental Break] [Final Chorus — Lucy + Riot] Call it extinct— it still has teeth. Bury the noise— it comes up underneath. Turn up the gain, let the whole room kick. You can kill the age, not the instinct. Extinct instinct. Still got teeth. Still got teeth. [Outro — Lucy → Riot] Under glass... Not anymore. © 2026 ☓irbaf — Lyrics & audio creative direction. © 2026 ☓irbaf — Visual concept & art direction.