*[INTRO — Guitar feedback screaming into existence. Drums crash in immediately, no warning, no count in. Raw and live sounding, like a rehearsal room about to collapse. 4 bars then straight into Jimmy V's throat.] *[VERSE 1 — Guitar power chords, fast and gritty. Drums relentless. Vocals raw and upfront, half shouted, half confessed. Jimmy isn't performing this — he's purging it.] Voices in my head Set off like a grenade Identity broken Coming apart and frayed (frayed, frayed, frayed) Demons on parade Through every face I wear How many versions Before there's nothing there (parade, parade, parade) *[PRE-CHORUS — Everything tightens. Guitar stripped to single chord stabs. Vocals getting dangerous.] Call me those slurs again Go on, say what you said My mind is fragmented But I'm still not dead *[CHORUS — Full punk explosion. Everything loud and colliding. Vocals shouted but cracking underneath — the vulnerability bleeding through the aggression.] Fragment Prism Rainbows out of scattered pieces Fragment Prism How many faces do I wear Am I real Don't tell me how I'm supposed to feel I'm set off like a grenade Wrapped around a beating heart *[VERSE 2 — Pulls back slightly. Guitar more jagged, less full. Jimmy V more conversational now, almost talking to himself.] Finger on the pin Ventricles keeping time People say I'm too cold Like cold was ever a crime (too cold, cold, cold) Don't need anybody To hold me up or down (hold me, hold, hold) But sometimes the grenade Gets heavy on the ground *[PRE-CHORUS] Call me those slurs again Go on, say what you said My mind is fragmented But I'm still not dead *[CHORUS] Fragment Prism Rainbows out of scattered pieces Fragment Prism How many faces do I wear Am I real Don't tell me how I'm supposed to feel I'm set off like a grenade Wrapped around a beating heart *[BRIDGE — Everything drops to single guitar, raw and barely held together. Jimmy V most exposed he gets — not soft, just stripped. Deliver uneven, like thinking out loud.] I feel it building That familiar pressure Every face I've worn Every name they gave me Every slur they threw Like I was nothing I'm something I'm all of it I'm the prism I'm the fragment I'm the grenade That hasn't gone off Yet *[BREAKDOWN — Drums alone for 4 bars. Then everything crashes back harder than before.] *[FINAL CHORUS — Fastest and loudest point of the song. Barely controlled.] Fragment Prism Rainbows out of scattered pieces Fragment Prism How many faces do I wear Am I real Don't tell me how I'm supposed to feel I'm set off like a grenade Wrapped around a beating heart (explode, explode, explode) *[OUTRO — Everything cuts except one guitar riff winding down. Jimmy V speaks the last line flat and certain, like a signature.] Prism Fragment On my milky way run [feedback, then silence]
