[Verse 1, close mic intimacy, low 808, metallic ticks, acoustic blues texture] how many times do we spin around the same loop, you confuse your cliches with the popular truth each time we break the cycle, we're right back where we started this and you keep blaming everyone but deny that you're a part of it Built a palace made of bubble wrap and velvet ropes, every doorway locked with your impossible hopes Fed me sugar-coated dreams, never let me scrape my knees, kept the world outside the window, never let me feel the breeze You swore the walls were safety, but they tightened like a fist You called it love and duty but there’s something that you missed [Chorus, grinding synth bass, hard 808 kick, punchy dry snare, dark sensual pop lift] Blind leading blind, down a hallway with no light, shadows where the truth won’t come to life You held me like a secret you were terrified to keep, but a cage is a cage, and the hole is six feet deep Blind leading blind, and the cost is due in time can’t outrun the fallout of a child you kept confined Oooh, Blind Leading Blind Blind Leading Blind [Verse 2, darker groove, swagger heavy 808, sidechained pads, industrial low pulse] When the gates finally cracked, I stumbled out into the air, wide-eyed, with no compass and under prepared Found a crowd that spoke in riddles, offered comfort in a pill, said, “if heaven doesn’t want you, then I know the devil will” First the medicine for pain, then the medicine for fear, then the needle whispered louder than the voices in my ear Till the knock at 3 a.m. froze the hands of time two officers at the door, hats low and voices kind [Post Chorus, hypnotic female chant, grinding synth bass pulsing] Ooh.. Blind Leading Blind Blind Leading Blind You said you gave me everything, but never gave me room You planted me in darkness, Then criticized the bloom [Pre Chorus Repeat, metallic percussion returns, quiet tension] swore the walls were safety, but they tightened like a fist You called it love and duty but there’s something that you missed [Final Chorus, full industrial goth dance release, hard 808 drums, grinding low synth, haunted acoustic undercurrent] Blind leading blind, down a hallway with no light, shadows where the truth won’t come to life You held me like a secret you were terrified to keep, but a cage is a cage, and the hole is six feet deep Blind leading blind, and the cost is due in time can’t outrun the fallout of a child you kept confined Oooh, Blind Leading Blind Blind Leading Blind Oooh, Blind Leading Blind Blind Leading Blind [Outro, beat decays, acoustic riff remains, synth fog dissolves] Now you’re standing in the doorway, with the echoes you designed trying to rewrite the ending of a story left behind But truth keeps whispering softly in the corners of your mind love without freedom is just blind leading blind
