# **THE MIMIC** *Dark nu-metal / spoken word — two-voice dynamic* --- ## **VERSE 1 — Voice 1 (YOU)** Something's wearing my face again Walked up to her door, said my name, let it in She swore it was me — same eyes, same hands But I was three miles gone, I don't understand How she heard my voice through a stranger's mouth How it knew exactly what to pull her south It studies us first, it learns how we move Then crawls through the cracks where we already bruise --- ## **VOICE 2 (THE MIMIC — her voice, too sweet, off)** *Baaaaby... come into this room* *I'm right here waiting, just for you* *Don't you want me? Come on through* *We can get a little freaky, just me and you* --- ## **VOICE 1 — spoken, cold:** …She'd never say that. She'd *never* say that. That's not her mouth. That's something wearing her mouth. --- ## **PRE-CHORUS — Both voices, overlapping** **V1:** It don't haunt like a ghost — **V2:** *Come find me...* **V1:** It hunts like a sin — **V2:** *I've been waiting so long...* **V1:** It don't break down the door — **V2:** *The door's already open, baby* **V1:** It gets **invited in.** --- ## **CHORUS — Voice 1, raw** It'll say my name with her voice Make me think I'm losing my mind She'll see me walking by But that ain't even me this time It looks like love, sounds like trust But it's something hollowed out The mimic wears a face it stole And it's splitting us apart from the inside out --- ## **VERSE 2 — Voice 1** She called me shaking, said "where did you go?" I said "I'm right here" — she said "that ain't so" Said she saw me down the hall, heard me in the next room But I was standing right beside her — so who was moving through? It's inside the house now, it learned the layout cold Knows which lights we leave on, knows which side I hold It wants the doubt to live where we sleep and breathe So it can move into the space between her and me --- ## **VOICE 2 — (now wearing YOUR voice — deeper, wrong)** *She doesn't know you like I do* *I've been here longer, I know what to do* *I know what she wants, I know what she needs* *Why do you keep fighting me?* *Just let go...* *Just... let go.* --- ## **VOICE 1 — breaking through:** No. You got the words right but the *feeling's* dead. You sound like a recording of something she never said. I know her. And I know *you.* --- ## **BRIDGE — Voice 2 alone, unraveling, glitching** *Ba— baby come to—* *I'm right here I'm right—* *Come on through, we can get—* *She loves you she loves you she—* *I know your name I know your name I know your—* *(silence)* --- ## **BRIDGE — Voice 1, quiet and certain** That's the tell. It overshoots. Says exactly what it thinks I want And that's how I know She would never — *Never* — talk like that to lure me in. That's not seduction. That's a trap wearing perfume. --- ## **FINAL CHORUS — both voices fighting** **V1:** It'll say my name with her voice — **V2:** *Say my name, say my name—* **V1:** Make me think I'm losing my mind — **V2:** *You're already lost, baby—* **V1:** She'll see me walking by — **V2:** *That WAS you. That WAS you.* **V1:** But I know who I am this time. --- ## **OUTRO — Voice 1, slow and heavy** It hunts what it can't understand It mimics love because it's never felt it It wore her face It wore mine But love has a frequency And you can't fake the frequency You just end up glitching In an empty hallway Calling a name That no one answers
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