Checkmate

[Chorus] Checkmate, baby, stars align Checkmate, baby, lose your mind Pawns are marching, queens collide We’re just pieces on the cosmic ride Checkmate! Checkmate! Falling through the night Checkmate! Checkmate! No one wins this fight [Verse 1] Neon streets and satellite skies Everybody’s rolling loaded dice Black holes castle, comets glide I moved forward, got taken from the side You smiled like you knew the play Then the galaxy swept you away Now the board is spinning fast Future echoes from the past [Chorus] Checkmate, baby, stars align Checkmate, baby, lose your mind Pawns are marching, queens collide We’re just pieces on the cosmic ride Checkmate! Checkmate! Falling through the night Checkmate! Checkmate! No one wins this fight [Verse 2] Rooks race down the avenue lights Knights jump over traffic at night Bishops preach in binary code While the king hides under overload You reached out for a final stand But the void just took your hand Endgame glowing, cold and bright We surrender every night [Bridge] Who’s moving us? Who’s keeping score? Invisible hands forevermore No timeout, no second chance Just the endless cosmic dance (Hey! Hey! Push that pawn!) (Hey! Hey! Game goes on!) [Chorus – bigger, stacked harmonies] Checkmate, baby, stars align Checkmate, baby, lose your mind Pawns are marching, queens collide We’re just pieces on the cosmic ride Checkmate! Checkmate! Falling through the night Checkmate! Checkmate! Kiss the board goodnight Checkmate! Checkmate! Checkmate! Checkmate! Chorus] Check — the stars just moved Check — the void takes a pawn Pieces sliding across the dark like glaciers Nobody asked to be on the board The game is older than names And the players don’t blink [Verse 1] I was walking home past the same neon signs When the streetlights lined up in perfect rows Eight by eight, glowing white and black A taxi rolled forward one square and stopped The driver looked up like he’d been chosen Passengers froze mid-conversation Someone whispered “knight to e5” And a whole block shifted sideways Without a sound [Chorus] Check — the stars just moved Check — the void takes a pawn Everybody’s frozen in their opening gambit Waiting for a hand that never shows its face The game is older than names And the players don’t blink [Verse 2] Comets castle long across the Milky Way Galaxies trade bishops for better sightlines Downtown a rook slides down an avenue Crushing parking meters like captured men People scatter but stay in formation Running in L-shapes, diagonal panic A child points at the moon and says “That’s their queen, she’s coming” The sky answers with silence [Bridge] Who promoted us to this endgame? Who sacrificed the light years just to fork us? Same board, same cold rules No resign, no draw The clock is the heat death Ticking in infrared We’re all just wood Waiting for the next quiet push [Chorus – layered, frantic, overlapping voices] Check — the stars just moved Check — the void takes a pawn Everybody’s falling into discovered attack Promoted to nothing in the final rank The game is older than names And the players Finally Blink As the king topples sideways Into the dark [Intro – bass groove locks in, twitchy hi-hat, synth scratches] [Chorus] Check — the black hole takes a knight Check — the nebula slides left Pieces crawling through the vacuum slow Nobody signed up for this show Board’s expanding, rules dissolve And the dark is calling the shots [Verse 1] Street corner pawn shop, fluorescent hum Old man pushes a rook made of rust It glides three blocks without a sound Traffic parts like it knows the plan I tried to step off the grid But the sidewalk squared me in White square, black square, heat haze Somebody’s laughing in ultraviolet [Verse 2] Queen’s gambit in the stratosphere Comets fork the moon in two Bishops preach diagonal fire While the king paces in a dead-end orbit You reached for promotion Got swallowed by a passed pawn Now the endgame’s breathing down our necks Clocks melting into spiral arms [Chorus] Check — the black hole takes a knight Check — the nebula slides left Pieces crawling through the vacuum slow Nobody signed up for this show Board’s expanding, rules dissolve And the dark is calling the shots [Bridge – rhythm drops to bass and sparse percussion, vocals half-spoken, echoing] Who set the pieces? Who breathes the dust? Same fingers, no face Same fingers, no trust En passant through your ribcage Zugzwang in your pulse Stalemate or surrender Either way we’re pulsing [Instrumental Solo – jagged guitar scratches over polyrhythmic drums, synth bubbles rising, bass walking in odd steps, builds frantic then snaps back] [Chorus – fuller, layered, slightly off-key harmonies] Check — the black hole takes a knight Check — the nebula slides left Pieces crawling through the vacuum slow Falling off the edge of the known Board’s expanding, rules dissolve And the dark Finally Takes the whole damn row [Outro – groove stutters, fades on single repeating bass note]