Nordic Discord Challenge W21 2025 Style: Psychedelic Rock Theme: Portal [INTRO] The lights are neon dreams, the speakers speak in tongues, the laughter spills like rivers from a thousand reckless lungs. [VERSE] He cracks one open, just for fun, the night’s a kaleidoscope on the run. Friends are colors, no one fades, until the bottle bends the shades. Mirrorball spinning, thoughts unwound, shadows dancing without sound. The bar is heaven, stage is flame, but every round forgets his name. [CHORUS] How many beers must a grown man drink, before he can find his way home? Is there a road through this liquid pink, or just a maze of skin and chrome? He walks through the portal, to a place half real, where nothing hurts and nothing heals. [VERSE] Morning cracks like fragile glass, time crawls slow through every flask. The laughter echoes, warped and thin, a loop that plays beneath the skin. The mirror stares with sober eyes, but he can't decode the quiet lies. He knows the joke, he's played the part, now something’s clawing at his heart. [BRIDGE] There's a voice beneath the buzz, saying "You were never really here." Each drink a door, each sip a mask, each step a deeper sphere. [Instrumental break ] [VERSE 3] He leaves the glass, it stays behind, walks barefoot through the borderlines. The neon fades, the air grows clear, and silence hums inside his ear. One step at a time, through fractured light, a dawn unfolds beyond the night. He feels the weight, he knows the cost, but through the loss, he’s never lost. [CHORUS] How many beers must a grown man drink, before he can find his way home? None, he whispers, past the brink— the way was never foam. The portal’s gone, the dream dissolved, and now his soul returns, evolved. [OUTRO] He breathes beneath the open sky, the haze replaced by morning’s cry. No longer lost, no longer numb, he’s found the place he’s always from. Through empty cups and shattered nights, he stepped into forgiving light. No portal left, no need to roam he’s sober now, and finally home...
