[Title: Phantom Embrace] [guitar solo: technical, sweeping, notes fall off, finger tap leading into somber note bends, only last note of solo rings out and sustains into bridge(dread)] [fxs: eerie, dreamy-horror on back end of vocals.] [Vocals: male, airy, afraid, dreamy, whispered, distant] [long pauses between lines] [Intro- scared, intimate, lost] Where have all the dreamers gone? Where are all the hopefuls now? Where are all the heroes I knew when I was young? [Verse 1 — whispered, distant, buried in reverb] The ghost in the frame... Asks me my name... Hangs in the air... Like the thought that remains They open the grave But there isn't a place For someone like me... To find the key... Or sleep through the day The empty coffin... I'm still afraid... [Prechorus-cold] As it decays Do you believe in God? Do you believe in fate? [Chorus-sinking guitar bends] I'm sinking into the Phantom Embrace I'm sinking into the Phantom Embrace... I'm sinking into the Phantom Embrace... [Verse 2- the world drags] In the darkness of the day In the bright of the night Where are all the dreamers now that they're awake? There is no grace In the ghost in the frame There is no grace... I can't turn the page... There is no grace There is no place... [ghastly guitar solo-death taking hold] [sweeping finger tap into depressed guitar bends.] [notes fall as if fading from reality] [Bridge- dread in sorrow] I can't do it Can't go on I'm so scared to be alone My whole life has led to this place... [Prechorus- dream state failing] I don’t dream... I just remember... What it felt like when I was safe... Now my heartbeat’s barely humming Like it wants to be erased... [Chorus-ghostly] I'm sinking into the Phantom Embrace... I'm sinking into the Phantom Embrace... I'm sinking into the Phantom Embrace... I'm sinking into the Phantom Embrace... [Breakdown-fear] If I vanished tomorrow Who would notice the air... Would my name leave a shadow Or just vanish right there... ( barely humming ) I’m too tired to keep trying Too awake to escape Every thought just keeps sliding Down the same dead weight [Outro- the soul has left the body, whispered, distant] I'm siiinkiiing... I call your name into the dark It swallows every trace I'm sinking into the phantom embrace ...siiinkiiing...
