Alice in the Wasteland ft. Poison Lilly [Blackline Audio]

///*****/// [Start] [Intro – low electrical hum, reversed guitar swell, distant radio static, single detuned piano strikes] [Spoken – low intimate female vocal] I closed my eyes for only a moment… When I opened them, the roses had all turned black. This isn’t Wonderland. Not anymore. [Verse 1 – intimate low female vocal, dry drums, pulsing bass, sparse baritone guitar] I never followed the rabbit down I watched the whole world lose its ground Through glowing glass and twisted words Where every player demands to be heard The painted smiles conceal the lies The loudest mouths dictate our lives Kings drop fire from ivory towers Then decorate the graves with flowers [Pre-Chorus – floor toms building, guitar feedback rising underneath] Every headline plants another seed Feed it fear and watch it breed They call it truth, they call it peace While tightening on the leash [Chorus – full distorted guitars, powerful melodic female belt, layered backing vocals] I’m Alice in the wasteland With my eyes open wide While freedom wears her shackles And the truth is crucified Mad Hatters on the television Pouring poison with their lies But I can see through all the smoke And every cheap disguise I’m falling through a world They’ve buried underneath the sand Watching them destroy What once could have been Wonderland [Post-Chorus – sustained guitar feedback, whispered vocal layer] Wonderland… What have you done to Wonderland? [Verse 2 – heavier bass groove, restrained guitars, cold industrial percussion] There’s a tea party for the chosen They raise their glasses and turn up their noses They burn the books, then blame the people Turned the frightened their sheeple Red pill, blue pill—different fates Two pretty colors, but both a cruel game They sell us peace with bloodstained hands Then build their thrones on stolen lands [Pre-Chorus – drums intensifying, vocal becoming more confrontational] Every headline plants another seed Feed it rage and watch it breed They call it choice, they call us free While deciding what we’re allowed to see [Chorus – full arrangement, wider harmonies, heavier guitar response] I’m Alice in the wasteland With my eyes open wide While freedom wears her shackles And the truth is crucified Mad Hatters on the television Pouring poison with their lies But I can see through all the smoke And every cheap disguise I’m falling through a world They’ve buried underneath the sand Watching them destroy What once could have been Wonderland [Bridge – half-time drums, tremolo guitar, low bass drone, exposed vocal] The looking glass is shattered But the picture’s finally clear The hands behind the curtain Are the architects of fear I won’t kneel before your kingdom I won’t dance with your strings I’m not another pawn In the games of queens and kings [Final Verse – aggressive melodic delivery, guitars gradually building] Those bloated Cheshire Cats sit high Blowing smoke across the sky Making us breathe their bitter schemes While they grow fat upon our dreams And every grinning Mad Hatter Sells another pretty joke But the hungry cannot eat their words And the desperate only choke You can call me crazy You can call me mad Make me your villain For remembering what we had It isn’t left or right When all they ever see is red So raise the axe and shout it— [Hostile shouted vocal] “OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!” [Final Chorus – maximum intensity, stacked harmonies, additional guitar counter-melody] I’m Alice in the wasteland No kingdom owns my mind You can bury every answer But the truth is hard to hide Let the queens demand my silence Let the kings condemn my name I would rather walk through ruin Than pretend this world’s the same I won’t fall into the grave They’ve buried underneath the sand I’ll crawl through every ruin Searching for our Wonderland [Outro – instruments dropping away one by one, low amplifier hum, final whispered vocal] Call me Alice. Call me Evil. Call me anything you need. But once you’ve pulled back the curtain… You can never go back to sleep. [Cold Stop]