
ENCORE x Becoming Loud (Mashup)
[Intro - glitchy synths and electropop pulse colliding] Say it loud enough and it becomes true There's a difference between noise and a voice (beat drops) [Verse 1 - female vocal leads, fast, sharp, male vocal bleeds in] Built this from a bedroom Soldering iron and a stolen amp First show was eleven people I made them stay Skinny kid wrong shoes Too pretty for the boys' room Got banned from two venues before I had a name Good — I'd build my own [Pre-Chorus - call and response] They said who are you — I said it louder They said tone it down — I said watch me Say it loud enough [Chorus - ENCORE's chorus, female vocal owns it] Encore encore encore You want more I've always got more Never ran out never went dark Never gave you a single second of silence Encore encore encore I'm the show that doesn't stop The name on every wall in Harling Encore Again again again let's go [Verse 2 - male vocal leads, female vocal bleeds in] Red curls on a ladder heels on concrete She just wanted someone real And I didn't know I qualified (female vocal bleeding in) Painted the venue myself three coats Wired the board hung the lights First time someone didn't want the attitude Harling didn't happen — I happened to Harling [Pre-Chorus - contrast sharpening] Something in me shifted not broke just opened Like a door I'd painted shut that someone left unlocked I don't get tired I get louder There's a difference between noise and a voice [Chorus - BECOMING LOUD's chorus, male vocal owns it] I'm becoming loud Not the kind that hides Not the turn-it-up-so-no-one Sees what's underneath the lights I'm becoming loud Like I finally found the sound Not the noise I made to survive But the voice I almost drowned Becoming loud For real this time [Bridge - stripped, the mirror] (male vocal, intimate) Mama every do you have to taught me how to hide I was hiding from the quiet of not being enough for you Loud ain't the same as heard Took a redhead on a ladder to show me I wasn't alone (female vocal, 3am, barely there) After the set after the lights after everybody's gone I lock up walk home Harling at 3am I get home I don't turn the lights on Tomorrow I do it again I found a home I built one [Final Chorus - BOTH COLLIDE, hooks stacking] Encore encore encore I'm BECOMING LOUD I've always got more The kind that stays I don't go quiet I don't go soft I don't slow down Not the noise not the front just the voice Full volume That's everything — what else would I do For real this time — for good this time [Outro - spoken, two closings] Bar's empty and I'm smiling Room's empty and I'm walking home (both hum in different keys, fade)

