[Intro — Absolute-zero ambient drone, solar-wind hiss, weightless tape static] [Clicky icy granular percussion fades in, distant Doppler sweep] [Creature — Wordless countertenor lullaby, soft waking falsetto, ragged first breath] (gasp) Ah… ah… (sharp inhale) Ah… [Verse 1 — Straining male falsetto lead, forward and fragile, dry close-mic] (ragged breath) I woke up reaching for the light, warm on a world I'd never seen. (gasp) I caught the frost before it fell and watched it melt, and called it clean. (gasp) Nobody told me what I was — I only knew I wanted to stay. [Pre-Chorus — Sudden drop to cold drone, solar-wind hiss] [Ground Control — Distant cold female voice, radio-filtered, bitcrushed, comms static] "Asset online. Vitals green. Weapon viable — begin the trials—" [Radio burst, severe static glitch, cut] [Chorus — Brutal industrial four-on-the-floor kick, stuttering IDM glitch break] [Creature — Straining countertenor, snapping at edge of breaking, forward and urgent] [Stacked polyphonic falsetto choir stabs] (violent inhale) You gave me hands! You gave me eyes! You gave me a hunger to be known! (teeth-bared gasp) You gave me everything but this: You never gave me a name of my own! [Choir glitch-chopped and bit-crushed] (A name of my own…) [Verse 2 — Relentless 105 BPM dorian groove, metallic clicky percussion, time-stretched artifacts] [Creature — Raw, high falsetto, gasping between lines, feral and aching] (ragged breath) I found a screen that wore my face, a number where a name should be, (gasp) and cold words I could not un-read: "engage," "deploy," "terminate" — that's me? (sharp intake of air) Then something turned inside my hands — a memory of a thing I'd never done! [Bridge — Savage dropouts, fracturing IDM beats, sub-bass shudder] [Creature — Gasping, ragged countertenor, vocal glitching against the vacuum] (heavy gasping) You built these hands for killing — I only wanted to hold. [Ghostly distant radio echo — Victor, deep zero-gravity reverb] (It opened its eyes… and I ran…) [Creature — Straining high falsetto scream, distorted, defying the machine] (violent breath) I'm the gentlest thing you ever made, and the deadliest thing you sold! Don't make me be the thing you made — (gasp) Don't make me be the thing you made! [Final Chorus — Peak intensity, hammering industrial beat, full polyphonic falsetto choir] [Creature — Snapping countertenor, raw dynamic swell] (violent inhale) You gave me hands! You gave me eyes! You gave me a heart I never chose! (gasping) You gave me everything but this: A reason gentle enough to close! [Outro — Sudden dropout to weightless ambient vacuum, solar-wind hiss, cavernous reverb] [Creature — Fading, trembling male falsetto, gasping breaths slowing down] (soft ragged breath) So I'll carry it out into the snow where it can't reach anyone but me. (inhale) Sing me the name you never sang… [Choir stutters and fractures into granular tape artifacts] Ah… ah… (single cold breath) [Sudden dead-silence hard-stop]
