**Fade Into Black** *Industrial Metal / Cyberpunk Horror* **[Verse 1]** Chrome teeth grinding in a wet meat jaw Neural fire cooking the wetware raw Fists through the glass, blood on the neon grid Screaming at ghosts the server still hid Static in the skull, code in the veins Every wire a live nerve feeding the pain I used to run on pure red heat Now the implants stutter and the pulse skips a beat **[Pre-Chorus]** The rig is coughing, the circuits start to seize The rage that kept the meat running is starting to freeze I can feel it thinning, I can feel it break The fire’s dying in the black of the lattice **[Chorus]** Fade into black Fade into black The screaming stops, the pressure cracks Rage burning out across the dead stack Fade into black Fade into black No more thunder, no more attack Just the dark, just the quiet… fade into black **[Verse 2]** Knuckles split open, chrome under the skin Every threat I uploaded is starting to thin The voice that used to shatter glass and bone Is glitching quieter, turning into stone I lived inside the noise, I lived inside the roar Now the silence feels like a null I can’t ignore Iron on my tongue, ash in the ports The war I started is losing its course **[Pre-Chorus]** The pulse is slowing, the wetware starts to fail The heat is leaving, the skin is turning pale I don’t want the fight, I don’t want the flame I just want the nothing, I just want the end of the name **[Chorus]** Fade into black Fade into black The screaming stops, the pressure cracks Rage burning out across the dead stack Fade into black Fade into black No more thunder, no more attack Just the dark, just the quiet… fade into black **[Verse 3]** Machines in my chest grinding down to dust All the things I swore I’d never let go of The red in my vision is bleeding into gray Every wall I punched through is starting to decay I can still taste the metal, still hear the distant grind But it’s farther now, farther, slipping out of mind No more fuel in the tank, no more spark in the wire Just the slow cooling down of a dying fire **[Bridge]** I can still taste the iron I can still hear the roar But it’s farther now Farther now Farther… The last of it drains Like coolant on the floor No spark left to catch No fuel left to pour Let it cool Let it die Let the dark Swallow the fire **[Final Chorus]** Fade into black Fade into black The last of the heat, the last of the impact I’m done with the war, I’m done with the act Fade into black Fade into black Let the dark take the rest of what’s left Rage… fade into black **[Outro]** *(slowing, distorted, fading)* Black… Black… The heat is gone The noise is gone Fade… Into black.
