[Key: C Minor, Mode: Minor with Chromatic Descent, Chord Progression: Cm-Bb-Ab-G7, BPM: 92, Style: Standalone Dark Industrial Cabaret, 1920s Berlin Cabaret Meets Modern Industrial Machinery, Vocal Identity: Sinister Theatrical Female Alto, Near-Spoken Verses Sharpening Into Mocking Sung Sneer, Cackling and Whispered Ad-Libs Throughout, No Sharp Inhalations of Breath, No Audible Gasps] [Instrumental Intro: Detuned Honky-Tonk Piano, Chromatic Descent, 4 bars, Ominous] [Verse 1: Deadpan Spoken-Sung, Female Alto, Theatrical, Controlled, Unsettling Calm] you know it's days like today that make me look back and although i can't say where I went off track i know things will come my way again [quiet dry laugh] (heh... heh) [Pre-Chorus: Industrial Percussion Enters, Accordion Distorts, Tension Coiling] yeah i don't know everything about it I wish I knew the whole story to my own fall but the truth is behind those drugs I couldn't see at all and my own feet caused me to faaaaall [Chorus: Mocking Sung Sneer, Full Instrumentation, Controlled Menace] oh i know what I am what can people say everything just goes my waaay [sharp cackle] (HA! HA!) [Verse 2: Cold, Deliberate, Female Alto, Stripped to Piano and Percussion] and I know i have pissed away opportunities other people might kill for and I know I treated people less than okay oh what did I do that for but I am still here, and my enemies have all fallen down [low, satisfied laugh] (heh heh heh) [Verse 3: Whispered Asides Between Lines, Detuned Accordion Underneath] and I know i have people I have missed that other people would kill for and there are memories that should not exist what did I do that for but I am still here, take a look around [Chorus: Bigger, Distorted Gang Vocal Beneath Her, Theatrical and Cruel] ohhh i know what I am what can other people say things will just keep going my way until my time on earth is done because i love the universe and she loves me sooooo ohhhh [cackling, layered, receding] (HAHAHA... haha... ha...) [Bridge: Breakdown, Nearly Bare, Muted Trumpet Alone With Her Voice, Unsettling Intimacy] i know what I am you don't need to say everything just goes my way and it's another day and I still know who I am [whispered aside] (I know what I am) [Outro: Full Instrumentation Returns, Distorted and Triumphant, Sneering] everything just goes it keeps on going it's going to keep on keepin on going my waaaay my waaaaaaaaay [building, unhinged laughter, cutting to silence] (HAHAHAHAHA... HA... ha...) [Solo Instrumental Outro, 4 bars, C Minor, Mechanical Pulse Grinding Down]
