[INTRO — NAKED SIGNATURE KILLSWITCH RIFF] [Simple down-tuned chugging riff, huge negative space; bass underneath; feedback and pick scrape between phrases] [Repeat riff, heavier] [ABRUPT DEAD STOP] [close breath] Tsk... [very close whisper] I was abandoned too. [HALF-BEAT SILENCE] [FULL BAND — SIGNATURE RIFF IMPACT] [VERSE 1 — STALKING GROOVE; RIFF RETREATS TO FRAGMENTS] [low, detached] Abandoned You spit on me I turned it into sound I'll make what you left behind An anthem for the diseased Isn't that what you called me? [each word isolated] Sicko Liar Fucking freak [DRUMS DROP — DRY VOCAL] Tsk tsk tsk Watch what you say [dismissive mutter] Whatever Motherfucker Whatever you say I live to be violated Another day [BUILD — RIFF FRAGMENTS CREEP BACK IN] Abandoned You took me there You took me— [FULL-BAND ERUPTION] RAWR—ARGHHHHH! Take my dignity Smear my face in dirt [HARD STOP] NOT ANYMORE [groove slams back] You're the disease You're the liar You're the freak [near-spoken] I'd spit on you if I could [CHORUS — FULL RIFF / MELODIC / SUNNBRIDGE CHILDREN'S CHOIR] [SYD + CHOIR] ABANDONED! ABANDONED! [melodic] Watch it bleed [HARD STOP — SYD BARK] OUT, BITCH! [choir-supported melody] Like a corpse still moving Can't get away [STOP] FROM THIS ITCH! [FULL RIFF] KILLSWITCH! SWITCH! SWITCH! [raw melodic Syd] I live to slaughter Another day [DROP — THEN FULL-BAND PUNCH] THAT'S MY FUCKING KILLSWITCH! Leave you out in the ditch Leave you out in the ditch— [SYD + CHOIR] ABANDONED! ABANDONED! [POST-CHORUS — EVERYTHING FALLS OUT] [room tone / faint floorboard] Tsk... Tsk... Tsk... [close whisper] Wanna see what's behind the door? [long pause] Follow me. [VERSE 2 — STALKING BASS-HEAVY GROOVE] Bobby got me Soul and body Bobby lives behind my eyes I'll make you scream I'll give you something to despise [voice ruptures into scream] SCREAM FOR ME! SCREAM FOR ME! [BAND CUTS — conversational] Sounds fucking beautiful, bitch. [BREAKDOWN — STOP/START KILLSWITCH GROOVE] Don't press— [STOP] Don't press my Killswitch Big red button [ONE RIFF HIT] Glowing red [TWO RIFF HITS] [DEAD POCKET — DRY] Tsk tsk tsk Don't play with Bobby Don't play with my monsters [FULL-BAND HIT] RAWR—ARGHHHHH! [CHORUS 2 — SHORT / HIT AND RUN] [SYD + CHOIR] ABANDONED! ABANDONED! Watch it bleed [STOP] OUT, BITCH! Like a corpse still moving Can't get away [STOP] FROM THIS ITCH! [FULL RIFF] KILLSWITCH! SWITCH! SWITCH! [DROP → IMPACT] THAT'S MY FUCKING KILLSWITCH! [BRIDGE — HAUNTED HOUSE / BAND MOSTLY GONE] [creaking wood / distant metallic drag / sparse bass pulse] [close, stalking] Tsk tsk tsk Drag your shadow across the floorboards Make my wounds yours Welcome to the haunted house of Killswitch Don't be so fucking scared [half-laughed] AHAHAHA! Syd doesn't bite [LONG DEAD SILENCE] [violent band stab] BUT BOBBY FUCKING SNAPS. [SLASHER INTERLUDE — STRIPPED / TAUNTING] This ain't Haddonfield It's Sunnbridge This ain't Camp Crystal It's Sun River [COMPLETE STOP] [quiet, contemptuous] Bitch, that's fucking worse. [SIGNATURE KILLSWITCH RIFF — FULL BAND] [EXTENDED INSTRUMENTAL HOOK — LET THE RIFF OWN THE SONG] [Huge bass, stomping drums, pick scrapes and feedback between repetitions] [BREAKDOWN 2 — BURN IT DOWN] Fuck the wound Fuck your words Fuck your girl Fuck your mother [escalating] BURN! BURN! BRING THE WHOLE BUILDING DOWN, BITCH! [RIFF SLAMS DOWN] THAT'S MY FUCKING KILLSWITCH! [BRIDGE 2 — THE WOUND / MUSIC PULLS BACK] You abandoned me I'll abandon you You left me I'll leave you too You didn't want me— [EVERYTHING ERUPTS] I'LL END YOU! END! END! AHAHAHA! Tsk tsk tsk— ARGHHHHHHHH! [FALSE STOP — COMPLETE COLLAPSE] [exhausted, spoken] Nah. [long silence] Already too late. Stains on my hands and Too much fucking happened To make it right again [almost empty] Tsk... Tsk... Tsk... [FINAL CHORUS — BIGGEST RIFF / BIGGEST CHOIR / SYD UNLEASHED] [SYD + FULL SUNNBRIDGE CHILDREN'S CHOIR] ABANDONED! ABANDONED! [melodic] Watch it bleed [HARD STOP] OUT, BITCH! [choir surges] Like a corpse still moving Can't get away [STOP] FROM THIS ITCH! [FULL SIGNATURE RIFF] KILLSWITCH! SWITCH! SWITCH! [raw melodic Syd] I live to slaughter Another day [DROP → MASSIVE IMPACT] THAT'S MY FUCKING KILLSWITCH! Leave you out in the ditch Leave you out in the ditch— [SYD + CHOIR] ABANDONED! ABANDONED! [OUTRO — EVERYTHING FALLS AWAY] [very close whisper] I was abandoned too. [breath] Tsk. [near-spoken] KILLSWITCH. [COMPLETE DEAD SILENCE] [FINAL SIGNATURE KILLSWITCH RIFF — ONE MONSTROUS PASS] [ABRUPT CUT] [alone in the room: one distant floorboard creak]
