[INTRO — MACHINE STARTUP / RADIO STATIC] [FX: Electrical hum → relay clicks → machinery spinning up] [MALE — distorted spoken] Wake the circuit. Break the seal. Give the machine something it can FEEL. [FEMALE — filtered whisper] You wanted power... [MALE] I wanted MORE. [DROP — GUITAR + 909 KICK] [VERSE 1] [MALE] Chrome teeth biting through the wire, Black smoke crawling ever higher. Red-line pressure, overload— Drive another nail into the code! [FEMALE] You built your kingdom out of noise, Manufactured gods and plastic toys. Pull my strings, I'll cut them loose— You made the weapon— [MALE] NOW FACE THE USE! [PRE-CHORUS — DUAL VOCALS] [FEMALE] Push— [MALE] PUSH! [FEMALE] Until the system cracks. [MALE] CRUSH! [FEMALE] No going back. [BOTH] Voltage climbing through our veins— Rip the locks— [MALE] AND BREAK THE CHAINS! [CHORUS] [BOTH] STEEL INFECTION! Running through the blood tonight! STEEL INFECTION! Turn the darkness into light! [FEMALE] Feed me distortion, Give me your disease— [MALE] NO GOD! NO MASTER! DOWN ON YOUR KNEES! [BOTH] STEEL INFECTION! [Gang vocals] HEY! HEY! HEY! [BOTH] We are the virus in the machine! [POST-CHORUS — EDM DROP] [Distorted Reese bass + acid 303 + chopped female vocal] [FEMALE — chopped] In-fec—fec—fection... [MALE] INFECT! [FEMALE] In-fec—fec—fection... [MALE] REJECT! [Guitar stab] [BOTH] DISCONNECT! [VERSE 2] [FEMALE] Lipstick poison on the interface, Digital venom with a pretty face. Touch the screen and taste the shock— I swallowed the key— [MALE] NOW BREAK THE LOCK! [FEMALE] Every command you send comes back, Every clean signal bleeds to black. [MALE] Zero! One! Loaded gun! [FEMALE] Your little revolution— [BOTH] HAS BEGUN! [PRE-CHORUS] [MALE] Hammer! [FEMALE] Harder. [MALE] Hammer! [FEMALE] Faster. [MALE] BURN THE CIRCUIT— [FEMALE] Kill the master. [BOTH] Voltage climbing through our veins— Rip the locks and break the chains! [CHORUS] [BOTH] STEEL INFECTION! Running through the blood tonight! STEEL INFECTION! Turn the darkness into light! [FEMALE] Feed me distortion, Give me your disease— [MALE] NO GOD! NO MASTER! DOWN ON YOUR KNEES! [BOTH] STEEL INFECTION! [Gang vocals] HEY! HEY! HEY! [BOTH] We are the virus in the machine! [BREAKDOWN — HALF-TIME INDUSTRIAL GROOVE] [FX: Factory hammer rhythm synced with kick] [MALE] LOAD. [Metal impact] [MALE] LOCK. [Metal impact] [MALE] SHOCK. [Metal impact] [FEMALE — snarled] Now watch your pretty system rot. [MALE] LOAD. [FEMALE] Corrupt me. [MALE] LOCK. [FEMALE] Construct me. [MALE] SHOCK. [FEMALE] Try to shut me down— [BOTH] YOU CAN'T FUCKING TOUCH ME! [Massive guitar/bass drop] [BRIDGE — FEMALE LEAD] [FEMALE — clean processed mezzo-soprano] Underneath the static I can hear you breathe. Underneath the programming there's something you believe. You can paint the cage in silver, You can polish every chain... [voice progressively distorts] But once you've tasted freedom— [FEMALE — SNARL] YOU DON'T GO BACK AGAIN! [MALE RESPONSE] [MALE] Then burn it! [FEMALE] Burn it. [MALE] Break it! [FEMALE] Break it. [MALE] Turn their precious signal— [BOTH] INTO STATIC! [FINAL DROP / CHORUS] [Full guitars + four-on-the-floor kick + acid bass + choir] [BOTH] STEEL INFECTION! Running through the blood tonight! STEEL INFECTION! We don't need your guiding light! [FEMALE] Feed me distortion, Give me your disease— [MALE] TEAR OUT THE WIRES! BRING THEM TO THEIR KNEES! [BOTH] STEEL INFECTION! [Gang vocals] HEY! HEY! HEY! [BOTH] We are the virus— We are the noise— We are the consequence of your fucking choice! STEEL INFECTION! [OUTRO — MACHINE FAILURE] [Tempo strips down to kick + machinery] [FEMALE — whisper] You made us. [MALE] YOU FED US. [FEMALE] You tried to control us. [MALE] YOU FAILED. [Power-down tone] [FEMALE — heavily processed] System integrity... zero percent. [MALE — distant] GOOD. [FX: electrical arc → hard shutdown → silence]
