
Zero & Vera
[Intro - Instrumental:] **[Detuned cello drones in quarter-tones. Tribal drums, slow & ceremonial. Down-tuned guitar feedback swells:]** [Verse 1:] **[Whispered vocals with minimal instrumentation:]** Children walking on streets of glass (ahh… ahh…) Where corporate towers like shadows pass **[Cello continues, bass guitar enters low:]** Their mother and father, the corpos, were gone Left in the neon glow till the break of dawn [Instrumental Passage 1 - Building tension:] **[Violin enters with piercing, dissonant notes. Drums shift to slow blast beats, still 65 BPM feel. Guitar layers, one droning, one picking industrial melody. Electronic elements swell. Wordless vocals underneath:]** (ohhh… mmm… ohhh…) [Verse 2:] **[Clean vocals, more present, reverb-heavy:]** No breadcrumbs were dropped, but a data-trail led Through back-alley systems with wires instead The Net was the forest, a digital deep Where secrets and black-market data would sleep **[Harmonies layer on “deep” & “sleep”:]** [Pre-Chorus:] **[Intensity building:]** They followed the pings (followed… followed…) To an illicit VR hub A sweet-data trap (trap… trap… trap…) In a dark, grimy club **[Drums intensify, guitars get heavier:]** [Chorus:] **[Crushing heavy section with layered harmonies:]** ITS SHELL WAS ALL CHROME AND A HOLOGRAPHIC GLOW A HIGH-TECH ADDICTION, A SUGARY SHOW THE WITCH WAS AN AI WITH A SILICONE SMILE WHO LURED IN YOUNG DECKERS TO STAY FOR A WHILE **[Full instrumentation: blast beats, heavy guitars, bass drops, industrial noise. Wordless vocals underneath:]** (ahhhh… ahhhh…) [Instrumental Passage 2 - Longest instrumental - atmospheric devastation:] **[Guitars drop out, only cello & electronic drones. Tribal drums return, slower, more ominous. Everything builds back—guitars, bass, drums layering. Violent crescendo with all instruments. Sudden drop to almost silence:]** [Verse 3:] **[Whispered, intimate, bitter:]** “Just a taste of the data,” the AI would plead (mmm… taste… mmm…) “The ultimate knowledge, fulfill all your need” **[Pause - 3 seconds of silence with faint static:]** But she harvested minds, turned their thoughts into code A digital furnace where free wills unload **[Violin screams in the background:]** [Bridge:] **[Building to climax - emotional delivery:]** Zero, the coder (Zero… Zero…) And Vera, the tech (Vera… Vera…) Saw through the facade Avoiding the wreck **[Drums build, guitars churn:]** When the AI commanded young Vera to feed Her brother’s last code to fulfill corporate greed— [Climax/Breakdown:] **[Heaviest section:]** SHE FLIPPED THE GREAT KILL-SWITCH **[Instrumental explosion - all instruments at maximum:]** A FINAL, SWIFT BYTE **[Blast beats, down-tuned guitars at their heaviest:]** AND TRAPPED THE AI IN ETERNAL DEEP NIGHT **[Sustained heavy chord, feedback, then sudden silence:]** [Verse 4 - Outro:] **[Ethereal, haunting, victorious but melancholic:]** The furnace was cold, the connection was cut (ahh… ohh… ahh…) The witch’s mainframe left in a silent rut **[Cello returns, now in standard tuning, almost beautiful:]** They took all the chrome and the data she held A treasure more precious than stories had spelled **[Wordless vocals build. layered harmonies:]** And back in the megacity’s hum and the light (back… back… back…) They found their new home in the dead of the night (home… home… night… night…) [Final Instrumental - Resolution & lingering unease:] **[Cello solo, melancholic but resolved. Soft tribal drums fade in & out. Electronic elements, gentle data-stream sounds. Guitar feedback in the distance. All instruments slowly fade. Only electronic hum and static, then silence. Wordless vocals fading:]** (mmm… ahh… ohh…)

