**"Venom" by Darkstar **[Intro - Atmospheric, bass-heavy, intimate]** ⸻ **[Verse 1 - Soft emo-rap flow, breathy delivery]** Crawled into your web, do I wanna stay there? Yeah, I do I wanna be more than the weight you carry through But I've been breaking down your door so hard You found me barely breathing, coming all unglued Yeah, I see you, the only one who reads my ruins The only light I trust in all this doom You're the only risk I'd take to prove When you look at me like that, pull me right back Oh, when you look at me like that, I'm falling right back ⸻ **[Pre-Chorus - Building, atmospheric]** Your fingers trace my spine like silk Wrapping round me, pulling me under Let me drown this time ⸻ **[Chorus - Clean vocals, devotional and desperate]** I am your venom Wrap you in my web like a spider Roll the dice, you know I'd die for Your surrender, your secret desire I can give you what you need tonight I can prove I'm more than my decline I am your venom Even when I'm falling, I'm your venom ⸻ **[Verse 2 - Faster emo-rap, more intensity]** Strip away the damage, let me show you what's beneath All these scars you've memorized, let me make you believe That I'm not just the wreckage that you hold I've got something left to give before I fold Our bodies speak in languages we've learned Trading years of silence for the way we burn Something's always left unsaid between But tonight I'll show you what I mean ⸻ **[Pre-Chorus - More intense]** Your hands map out my constellation Pulling me from suffocation Let me go under this time ⸻ **[Chorus - Heavier, more layered]** I am your venom Wrap you in my web like a spider Roll the dice, you know I'd die for Your surrender, your secret desire I can give you what you need tonight I can prove I'm more than my decline I am your venom Even in the darkness, I'm your venom ⸻ **[Bridge - Stripped down, vulnerable, building]** **[Whispered/soft]** I know you've been the one who holds me up I know you've been the one who's been enough But let me be the poison for once Let me be the danger you want **[Building with drums]** Your outer shell, I'm underneath your skin The only place where both of us can win Surely we know the difference between Taking and giving, dying and living ⸻ **[Progressive Metal Section - Instrumental build, 16 bars]** *Jackie's drums: Complex polyrhythms, building intensity* *Katie's bass: Driving, hypnotic, deeper and deeper* *Alex's guitar: Soaring, technical, emotional* ⸻ **[Breakdown - Mix of clean and harsh, building to explosive]** **CLEAN:** I am your venom **HARSH:** (WRAP YOU IN MY WEB!) **CLEAN:** Even when I'm breaking **HARSH:** (I CAN GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED!) **BOTH:** I am your venom tonight ⸻ **[Final Chorus - Most intense, all elements colliding]** I am your venom Wrap you in my web like a spider Roll the dice, you know I'd die for Your surrender, your secret desire **[Harsh vocals enter]** I CAN GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED TONIGHT! I CAN PROVE I'M MORE THAN MY DECLINE! **[Both]** I am your venom Even when I'm drowning, I'm your venom ⸻ **[Progressive Metal Outro - Extended, 24+ bars]** *Building to crushing heaviness, then stripping back* **[Whispered over fading instruments]** I am venom... (Your spider, your poison) I am venom... (Your reason, your toxin) I am venom... (Even when I'm under) **[Final heavy chord, sustain, fade]**
