Redline

[Intro – glitchy synth hum, heartbeat bass, distant sirens, soft wailing six-string lead fading in] Redline… redline… I can feel my pulse deleting my name… [Verse 1 – slow, breathless baritone | neon rain ambience | clean electric guitar bending high notes in background] I keep chasing your shadow through the neon rain, Your name is the blade that cuts inside my brain (OH GOD NO—!) You were the first hit I never should’ve tasted, Now every heartbeat feels like something holy getting wasted. Your touch was poison dressed as paradise, A whisper soft as overdose, sharp as a knife. I breathe you in like smoke, like sin, like need— You’re the ghost in my bloodstream making every thought bleed (DON’T LEAVE ME—!) [Verse 2 – industrial pulse, distortion rising | guitar slides getting dirtier and more frantic] I drip venom in my nerves just to feel your face, Redline tremors drag me through another day. The city calls my name like it wants me dead (GET UP—RUN!!) (OH GOD PLEASE—!) and I keep answering, ’cause violence is the only thing I’ve ever been fed. Coughing up sparks in the gutter’s glow, My hands still shake from the last war I let go (I CAN’T— I CAN’T—!) I’m addicted to the rush, the crash, the pain— and baby, you’re the only thing I crave more than the end of this chase (DON’T MAKE ME FEEL THIS—!) [Verse Loop – repeat Verse 1 & Verse 2 | guitar becomes warped with glitch effects, bending off-key like hallucinations] (NO—NO—NO—!) [Pre-Chorus – whispered falsetto layered over tired breathing | distant bluesy guitar wail swells in and out] I’m running… but my lungs feel like broken glass. I’m running… but the pavement keeps pulling me back (HELP ME—!) I’m running… but every time I close my eyes I fall into you (NO—NO—NO—!) [Chorus – Rakdos-style melodic glitch | synth swell | metal crash | six-string screaming like it’s crying out in pain] Run away… I’m too far gone to ever feel safe (OH GOD NO!!) (WHY CAN’T I STOP!) Run away… Your name hits harder than the drugs I chase. Run away… I’m choking on the violence I crave— and I’m so tired, so tired, but I still run your way (LET ME GO—!) [Breakdown – static, sirens, metal impacts | guitar bends into tortured, pitch-dropped growls] You’re the hit… You’re the hurt… You’re the god I serve in the dirt. Every sin… Every burn… Baby, I run ’til my veins don’t work (I’M BEGGING YOU—!) (END THIS—!) [Final Chorus – collapsed, half-sung, half-screamed | glitchstorm | full electric guitar wailing like a soul tearing apart] Run away… but I still crawl back to where you lay (PLEASE DON’T DO THIS!!) (DON’T MAKE ME REMEMBER!) Run away… but you’re the only hallucination I crave. Run away… I’m tired, I’m ruined, I’m begging the blade— but I still run your way (OH GOD NO—NO—NO—!)