
Game Over at Midnight #HauntingSignal
#HauntingSignal - Event Song: π https://suno.com/song/c8301c95-62e6-4a53-a1be-fbbecd8b6c12 All cursed tracks shall be sealed within the Playlist of the Void π: π https://suno.com/playlist/8fd7663e-c7be-40ab-a7e5-546a633bc676 βββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββββ [Intro | Instrumental] [Verse 1] It's just another night in October, the arcade's all aglow, Neon on the carpet, quarters in a row. Black Autumn pressed its face against the glass out in the lot, And Crimson Leaves blew in the door, but we thought nothing of it. [Verse 2] There's a Jack-o'-lantern by the prize booth, grinning at the crowd, Kids in paper costumes yelling Trick or Treat out loud. The tickets spill in ribbons and the music's turning slow, And every screen keeps flickering with a face I don't know. [Pre-Chorus 1] Then the lights all hum together, and the floor begins to shake, Something old is waking up, and it's wide awake. [Chorus 1] Insert coin, press start, but there's no way to quit, The arcade is hungry and it won't let go of us. Run for the doors, but the doors won't give, You're playing for your soul now, and the game says die, not live. [Verse 3] Under the Harvest Moon, the old machines began to scream, Joysticks twisting by themselves, the pixels bleeding green. The manager said, "Stay calm, folks," then he looked up at the sign, And the building whispered back to him: "This ground was never yours or mine." [Verse 4] They built it on a burial site, the old stones paved away, And the Souls of the Fallen have been waiting for this day. Everyone ran for the exit, but the doors slammed down like iron, And the glass would not break, and the locks would not unbind. [Pre-Chorus 2] Eight of us were trapped inside, and the screens began to glow, Eight of us who thought that we were safe, and now the numbers go. [Chorus 2] Insert coin, press start, but there's no way to quit, The arcade is hungry and it won't let go of us. Run for the doors, but the doors won't give, You're playing for your soul now, and the game says die, not live. [Verse 5] The first to fall was Danny, at the racing cabinet, The wheel grew hands and held him as the screen went black and wet. Then the claw machine unfolded, long and thin and wrong, And took the girl from the ticket booth, and her scream was short and gone. [Verse 6] Something wore the sprites of villains from the games we used to play, Pixel-grinning Monsters that were stepping out to slay. A knight in blocky armor swung a sword that cut for real, And another dragged a screaming boy into the screen, with no appeal. [Bridge] This is The Haunting, built in bone and wire, The ground itself is Cursed, and the machines are its choir. In the Dead of Night, there are no extra lives, Only the ones that we can save, only the ones that survive. We slipped behind the Veil of Shadows, through a door marked "Staff Only," Into hallways that kept shifting, endless, narrow, and lonely. [Verse 7] The backrooms stretch forever, with the fluorescent buzz, Dead cabinets in rows, and none of them are what they were. I hear the music playing, a lullaby in 8-bit tone, It's coming from the walls, and it's calling us to come home. [Verse 8] There's an exit sign ahead, a green light in the gloom, I take your hand and whisper, "Run, we're almost through the room!" We can feel the cold night air, we can taste the open sky, One more hall, one more door, and we're free to say goodbye. [Final Chorus] Insert coin, press start, but there's no way to quit, The arcade is hungry and it won't let go of us. We reached the door, we felt the breeze, Then the floor went dark, and the screen said, "Final Boss: Please..." [Verse 9 / Breakdown] It towered up before us, made of every game we'd played, A thousand glowing faces, and a shadow with no shade. It reached down with a hand of cables, cold and wide and slow, And whispered, "Player One, Player Two, you've got nowhere to go." [Outro] "I'm sorry..." "I'm here..." "GAME OVER." [Outro Tag] Insert coin to continue.


