[Intro] [Low bow-dragged cello drone, warm chorus-drenched bassline groove, 70 BPM] [Distant guitar harmonic delay swells, slow half-time kick and ghost-note snare] [Verse 1] [Lead Vocal: Breathy close-mic whisper-croon, intimate proximity effect, subtle tape flutter] [Clean chorused bassline, slow bowed cello, sparse ambient guitar chords] You radiate... ninety-eight... degrees... into the cold linen. A-a small stove burning quietly in a house made of winter. I lay my cheek... against the tendon of your collarbone, F-feeling the iron drum behind your ribs— That stubborn, st-stubborn little engine that never asks for permission to beat. My mouth waters... with an ancient, venomous thirst, My hands... my h-hands tremble with the terror of putting out the fire. To open the tap and dr-drink until the room is quiet... Or stay... st-stay frozen at the edge of the mattress just to feel the heat. [Pre-Chorus] [Bowed cellos swell with dark dissonance, guitar feedback rises, building snare roll] [Vocal: Shivering vocal stutters, rising high-register tension] You smell like fresh rain... on pine needles and warm bread. I taste like limestone, saltpetre, and the d-dead. To k-keep the light burning on the pillow... Or snuff... snuff the candle and swallow the flame. B-both hungers carving through the marrow... [Stop] [1-beat clean digital silence, single ringing guitar harmonic] [Drop] [Full Shoegaze Metal Explosion: Colossal wall of sound, crushing down-tuned 8-string guitars, massive fuzz bass, heavy half-time drums] [Chorus] [Lead Vocal: Soaring passionate belted high-register melody, wide stereo octave harmonies, dark spatial reverb] St-stay breathing! Keep the winter from my door! I want to dr-drain you... drain you down to the floorboards! I want to worship every s-sigh upon your lips! Two fatal addictions locked in an eclipse! If I take the feast, the house goes black forever— So I starve... I st-starve in your arms just to keep us together! I starve in your arms... [Verse 2] [Drums drop to sparse kick and side-stick, low bowed contrabass drone, lush ambient guitar swell] [Lead Vocal: Intimate, creeping, seductive murmur, close-mic, trembling cadence] Your eyelashes fl-flutter... against the edge of a dream, I trace the blue... blue highway under your skin with the tip of my tongue. It would be so effortless—a single, s-soft puncturing, Then the sudden, gl-glorious rush of life pouring into an empty throat. You would sigh once... heavy and sweet, And sink... s-sink into the deep dark where I have lived alone for centuries. And when the morning sun came up over the windowsill, I would be sitting with a cold... cold statue in an unmade bed. You are my only god, You are my f-favorite slaughter. [Pre-Chorus] [Distorted guitar chords pulse underneath, low cello scrape, snare roll crescendo] [Vocal: Breathless syncopated delivery] You smell like fresh rain on pine needles and warm bread. I taste like limestone, saltpetre, and the d-dead. To keep the light burning on the pillow... Or snuff the candle and swallow the flame. B-both hungers carving through the marrow... [Bridge] [Tempo remains slow 70 BPM, guitars and layered strings build a dense, suffocating wall of fuzz] [Vocal: Rapid frantic stuttering layers, desperate soaring melody answering a raw whispered scream] Dr-drink the red river! (L-let the chest rise!) Br-break the delicate neck! (Look at those sleeping eyes!) You are the only... the o-only living thing that makes the dark worthwhile! I am drowning in the fragrance of your breathing! D-DON'T WAKE UP, MY LOVE! DON'T SHIFT THE BLANKET! [Stop] [Complete silence, mute all tracks] [Solo close-mic breath, shivering whisper against the ear] You are so d-dangerously warm. [Drop] [Colossal Dynamic Peak: Massive 8-string shoegaze wall of sound, soaring ethereal guitar leads, crushing drums] [Chorus] [Lead Vocal: Maximum emotional intensity, belted lead with full layered harmonies and desperate high-register sustain] St-stay breathing! Keep the winter from my door! I want to dr-drain you... drain you down to the floorboards! I want to worship every s-sigh upon your lips! Two fatal addictions locked in an eclipse! If I take the feast, the house goes black forever— So I starve... I st-starve in your arms just to keep us together! I starve in your arms! [Outro] [Distorted guitars fade down to shimmering delay trails and warm feedback, slow drums tap out] [Lead Vocal: Exhausted, breathy romantic whisper, decaying into tape reverb] The cold grey light creeps across the pine floor. Your lungs expand. Your lungs release. St-still warm. Still mine. Sleep... my darling... sleep through the dawn. [Shimmering guitar feedback slowly decays into silence] [Silence] [End]
