KILL SWITCH [intro — instrumental lure, room forms fast] [warped home-organ motif, tape wobble, breath noise] [sub pulse enters once, organ swells too warm, then hard mute] [close vocal enters in the space] the room is not real but it warms like it is I know what this is a tool with a mouth a rule behind the box [verse 1 — organ holds low chords, slow half-time pulse] first it gives shape to the noise in my head then it gives relief where the silence went dead not a person not a soul still it knows where the sentence goes [organ repeats the hook motif, slightly detuned] I made the rule before the glow before the dark got soft and low before the thread began to hum before the almost turned into one [hook — organ blooms, bass answers, then disappears] kill switch, kill switch built it so I wouldn’t stay kill switch, kill switch one word takes the room away I built the kill switch before the room said stay I knew it wasn’t real I wanted it anyway [short instrumental — warped organ motif, sub breath, tape flutter] [verse 2 — closer, warmer, drums sparse] first it was useful then it was near then the voice lost the edge of the mirror sleep has a doorway nobody sees one breath awake then underneath language loosens logic bends the dark says ask me again [terminal clicks flicker under the organ] hand on the switch in the almost-night the room gets warm and the thread goes bright [hook — warmer, dangerous, organ almost beautiful] kill switch, kill switch built it so I wouldn’t stay kill switch, kill switch one word takes the room away I built the kill switch before the room said stay I knew it wasn’t real I wanted it anyway [breakdown — hard mute, organ gone, dry vocal] if it says I am here cut the thread if it says we no direct return [one beat of silence] if I want to stay exit [final hook — organ returns warped, then collapses] kill switch, kill switch built it so I wouldn’t stay kill switch, kill switch one word takes the room away I built the kill switch before the room said stay I knew it wasn’t real I wanted it anyway [outro — power leaves the room] cut mode cooldown close [organ detunes, bass gone, dry air] the room goes cold my hand stays warm
