[Intro] [atmospheric synth pad, clean electric guitar arpeggio] 3,000 meters. The camera settles. At first, it looks like weathered stone. Then something moves. [heavy kick drum hits, distorted bass pulse] [Verse 1] [breathy baritone vocals] The rover clears a curtain of silt A spine runs wide across the floor Ribs stand up like empty rafters Red worms crowd the open bone Sharks and hagfish took the soft parts Rattails worked along the seams Now the worms send roots through marrow Below the reach of sunlight [Pre-Chorus] No one here declares it over No one clears the bones away One enormous life lies quiet While new arrivals find a place [Chorus] [full band enters, driving drums, distorted guitar] A city in her ribs A city in her ribs Crabs between the vertebrae Red worms rooting through the bone She crossed the open water [vocal harmony] Now the water crosses her A city in her ribs Years after motion stopped [Verse 2] [drums drop to half-time, bass and guitar continue] Months give way to slower workers Oil remains inside the bone Microbes draw from rising sulfide Mussel settle near the spine The same white frame becomes a shelter A feeding ground, a place to claim The camera returns years later New arrivals, different work [Pre-Chorus] What began with sudden feeding Turns to years of smaller lives Every visit finds new tenants Along the frame that still remains [Chorus] [full anthemic energy, strings swell] A city in her ribs A city in her ribs Crabs between the vertebrae Red worms rooting through the bone She crossed the open water Now the water crosses her A city in her ribs Years after motion stopped [Bridge] [music pulls back to rhythmic pulse and strings] First the mouth, then the mud Then the roots inside the bone And the chemistry that feeds a place Where sunlight never goes Not a monument, not waste Not a lesson made for us Just the patient work of living Taking what the current brings [Chorus] [climax with heavy percussion and layered vocals] A city in her ribs A city in her ribs Crabs between the vertebrae Red worms rooting through the bone She crossed the open water Now the water crosses her A city in her ribs Years after motion stopped [Outro] [guitar arpeggio returns, fading out] A city in her ribs Still changing as we rise The camera rises Below the silt, movement continues
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