[Intro] [[Geiger counter ticking, slow, then a sharp electronic crackle]] The core don't glow for everyone. It glows for me. [Verse 1] Crawled through the containment seal, skin already peeling, Melanin drinking gamma like it's oxygen and healing. Concrete's sweating cesium, the walls are bleeding blue, I unzipped the reactor's ribs and climbed on through. Geiger needle pinned to red, screaming like a choir, I let it kiss my collarbone and called it holy fire. Ain't contamination — it's a second birth, I'm becoming something that was never meant for earth. [Chorus] Radiotrophic — feeding on the meltdown, Cherenkov blue is bleeding out my mouth now. Every rem you're scared of, I'm swallowing whole, Half-life ticking down but I ain't got a soul left to lose. [Verse 2] Spliced a strand of melanin to a curie-count vein, Watched it graft itself on like it's used to the pain. Fingertips are glowing now, radiant and raw, Peeled back my own sternum just to show you what I saw — A colony breathing where my lungs used to sit, Fruiting bodies blooming every time I catch a fit. They said the zone was empty. Nah, it's occupied. I'm the only thing in here that never should've died. [Bridge] Quiet. Can you feel it counting? Not sick — becoming. Every cell replaced with something that don't rot, I'm the only life that thrives inside this radiant lot. [[Piercing scream, cuts hard to static]] [Chorus] Radiotrophic — feeding on the meltdown, Cherenkov blue is bleeding out my mouth now. Every rem you're scared of, I'm swallowing whole, Half-life ticking down but I ain't got a soul left to lose. [Outro] [[Geiger alarm redlines, holds three seconds, cuts dead silent]] I ain't afraid of the dark anymore. I glow in it now.
