[shoegaze intro – reverb-heavy guitar drones, ghostly piano echoes] [verse 1 – falsetto, soft acoustic in background] Glass houses crack beneath our feet While bodies sink in streets below The greed machine won’t miss a beat We fly away from what we know Broken edges fit so tight Complete each other’s desperate lies But in the dark of sleepless nights My heart beats for another’s eyes [chorus – drums bloom into polyrhythm, strummed bass melodic and high register] Savage in a suit and tie Monster with a human face Animals that learned to cry Still we’re drowning in disgrace [instrumental break – jagged Greenwood/Coxon guitars rising, piano dissonance guiding] [verse 2 – more urgent falsetto, restrained percussion] Two years of hiding what I feel The reptile brain that runs the show This veneer of what is real Cracks deeper than you’ll ever know We finish sentences like prayer But prayer won’t wash the blood away The drowning people everywhere While we pretend that we’re okay [chorus – slightly harsher delivery, distortion creeps into guitars] Savage in a suit and tie Monster with a human face Animals that learned to cry Still we’re drowning in disgrace [bridge – whispered falsetto over tense, minimal bass + cymbals] Civilization’s paper thin The beast beneath begins to show We love but can’t escape our skin The things we never let them know Underground the truth remains We’re all just meat with beating hearts Pretending we’re not bound by chains Of appetite that tears apart [final chorus – layers crash in, vocal harmonies breaking, guitars chaotic] Savage in a suit and tie (Glass houses fall tonight) Monster with a human face (Running from the fading light) Animals that learned to cry (But tears won’t make it right) Still we’re drowning Still we’re drowning In disgrace [outro – feedback, piano echoes fading into silence]
