[Verse 1 β minimal, female, gravelly ASMR, almost a cappella over sub-bass pad only, intimate, no drums] Back to the landing and back to the lock, Ticking away like a pitiless clock. [breathy sub-tone, solo] Up to the ceiling and up to the sky, Paying the bill for a chemical high. [no drums, only Reese bass pad and breath] [Pre-Hook β building tension, female, raw "AfillΓ‘", heavy vocal fry, drums enter gradually (first kick only, then full broken beat)] Lifting me sharp with a jeer and a shove, Calling it mercy but cheating on love. [female, strangled sultry, bitcrush] Then comes the metal, the jolt and the drop, [female, broken soul run, glitching] Waiting for someone to make it all stop. [Hook β female, white voice outburst, full techstep growl bass, breakbeat explodes] Cheek on the asphalt and grit in the mouth, Flying due north while the birds go to south. [female, ASMR return, whispered, calm] Scraping the dirt from the edge of the knee, [female, gravelly, riding Reese bass] Begging the jailer to set it all free. [Instrumental break β avant-garde trumpet solo over broken techstep beat: multiphonics, half-valve cries, breath as texture. Drums: syncopated snare displacements, ghost notes. Reese bass drone with sub-drops.] [Verse 2 β sparse, fragmented, female, breathy, intimate, only snare and hi-hat ghosts, no kick, granular delay on voice] Twisting the handle and pushing the pane, [short pause, then whispered] Washing my face in the sludge of the drain [female, strangled, like a vocal glitch] He is a needle and I am the vein, [female, vocal fry + broken run, a cappella for 2 beats] Mapping the links in a metallic chain. [then bass enters on last word] [Verse 3 β dense, layered, female, ASMR with gravelly edges, reverse reverb, full broken beat with all elements, plus wordless humming underneath] Promise me nothing and give me the same, [humming in background, same pitch] Write in the dust with a finger my name. [female, white voice, sudden outburst into bass void β drop without warning] Down on the floor where the linen is torn, [female, breathy, strangled, fading] Cursing the minute I was even born. [humming continues 2 more seconds after last word, then cut] [Instrumental break β prepared piano solo fused with broken techstep: inside-plucking, forearm clusters, string scraping. Breakbeat edits with glitched snare rolls. Reese bass modulates under the piano. No fixed rhythm, industrial reverb.] [Pre-Hook β female, dual nature: raw then intimate, broken beat swing, bass modulation rises] Running away to the end of the street, Dragging the shame on the soles of my feet. [female, vocal fry, sultry, riding bass modulation] But when he calls with a hiss and a nod, [female, gravelly, ASMR, bass whispers] I am a slave to a terrible god. [Hook β female, broken melodic runs, heavy fry, collapsing sub-drop, breakbeat stutters] Stairway is steep and the lantern is dim, All of my days are a forfeit to him. [female, white voice outburst, raw, breakbeat explodes] Hitting the ground with a thud and a crack, [female, breathy, strangled, fading into reverb] Knowing tomorrow that I will be back. [Verse 4 β stripped, almost spoken word, female, ASMR then strangled sultry, only Reese bass pad and occasional reversed snare, no kick, no hi-hat] Bitter the water and empty the cup, [long pause, breath] No way to fix what is already up. [female, gravelly, synced with bass modulation] Heavy the door and the window is shut, [female, vocal fry + breathy, filter sweep] Deeper and deeper the edge of the cut. [Short drum & bass break β solo broken beat with snare displacements, reversed cymbals, sub-bass drop, then silence for 1 beat. Piano plays one atonal cry before Outro.] [Outro β female, raw "AfillΓ‘" with rhythmic fry, broken beat groove gradually disintegrating into sub-bass silence] No use in trying to find a new track, Pull on the lever and wait for the smack. [female, broken soul run, disintegrating into wordless moans, bass modulation slows down] High on the roof and then flat on the stone, [female, strangled, intimate, ending on a single sub-bass harmonic fading to nothing, breakbeat fragments disappear] Chewing the gristle right off of the bone.
