[Intro: Radio Samples & Somber Piano] (Static tuning) "September 11th, 2001..." "A second aircraft has struck the World Trade Center..." "This is no accident..." (Heartbeat sound, slow piano melody) [Beat Drops - Heavy and Slow] [Verse 1: Somber Rap Flow] Smoke in the skyline, ash in the air People runnin' through the streets but nobody knows where High above the city where the sirens never cease A little girl kneels down and prays for some peace Seven years old, man, she's too young for this Too young for goodbye, too young to exist In a world where the hatred falls out of the sky Too young to understand the reasons people die The elevator's gone, the stairwell is flame Every second getting hotter, every breath is a pain She closes her eyes, tears fallin' in the smoke Lookin' for a savior as she started to choke [Pre-Chorus: Melodic & Pleading Vocals] She whispers: God, I'm just a little girl, much too young to die I wanna see the oceans, I wanna see the sky I wanna help people, wanna bring a little light I had my whole life, I never started a fight Please, send me an angel from the shelf Or give me a way I can save myself... [Verse 2: Tempo slightly speeds up] The fire burns brighter, the walls glow red The future she imagined feels already dead The heat keeps rising, the smoke rolls black Ain't no way forward, ain't no way back Then something shifts in the room, wait, something changed Not red, not a flame, it was looking kind of strange Another kind of light cut right through the haze A flicker, a shimmer, a neon-colored maze A glowing pink portal appears from nowhere A pulse in the room shifting gravity and air A voice calls softly through the smoke and the blur: "Come on, little girl, your prayer was just heard." [Chorus: Big Anthem Feel, High Energy] Step into the anomaly! Walk right through the light History bends when the timing is right I am the question, I am the key I am the anomaly! Step into the anomaly! Don't be afraid Futures are built from the choices we made Through every timeline, reality's seams I am the anomaly, waking from dreams! [Verse 3: Storytelling Rap Flow] She takes one step, then takes another one more Leaves the burning tower through a hidden glowing door The light surrounds her, the world disappears The smoke and the sirens fade out of her ears Standing right before her, dressed in silver and green The strangest older woman that she had ever seen Long dark hair with the neon in her eyes Like she carried tomorrow inside of her mind The little girl whispered, "It looks hollow inside." The woman just smiled with nothing to hide "Are you an angel?" The answer was, "No... I'm Hollow Green, and it's time we should go." "My name is Melanie," the little girl said. The woman just nodded and tilted her head. [Verse 4: Introspective Flow] The portal keeps glowing, reality bends Two versions of one life are meeting again The child looks up, "How do you know me so well?" The woman laughed softly, a story to tell: "Because I am you, from a different domain, You asked God for an angel to take away pain. Somehow your prayer opened up a new way, You didn't wait for a hero to save you today. You became your own rescue when this opened up, You drank from your own survival cup. You saved yourself today, take a look at the view... You survived it all... because I am you." [Bridge: Beat cuts out, spoken word rhythm, building strings] I am the anomaly. The impossible event. The prayer that shouldn't work, the message that was sent. The future that defied what they wrote on the page. The girl who survived walking out of the cage. The woman who returned to rewrite the timeline. The beginning and the end. The design. [Beat Drops Back In] [Final Chorus: Maximum Energy, Layered Vocals] Step into the anomaly! Walk right through the green Nothing is ever exactly what it seems Through every portal, through reality's seams I am the anomaly, waking from dreams! Step into the anomaly! Open the door The universe is bigger than it ever was before A girl survives, a new era begins... The Hollow Green story starts over again! [Outro: Slow fade out, lo-fi beat] (Spoken smoothly) Welcome to the anomaly... Welcome to the rest of your life... Welcome to the Hollow Green Universe. (Echoing) Hollow... Green... [End]
