Exit Wound: City Sleeps (Chapter 20)

[Intro – lo-fi crackle, crooner whisper] Neon fades… streets run cold, Courier stands where the story’s told. City sleeps with a wound so deep, Monsters gone, but shadows keep. [Verse 1 – slow rap, heavy atmosphere] Skyscrapers cracked, billboards dead, Rain dried up but the streets still bled. Nyra’s song lingers soft and low, Her echo the only voice I know. Kaelith’s roar is silent now, The Queen still reigns but I don’t bow. Dr. Vox whispers from the static haze, But his code just fades in the city’s maze. [Pre-Chorus – glitch echo] Every scar the city wears, Every silence says it cares. [Chorus – cinematic swell] Exit wound, the city sleeps, Every secret the skyline keeps. Courier walks, the rain is gone, But the beat of the night lives on. Exit wound, a final breath, Life survives in the face of death. Neon dim, but I still roam, Courier’s rhythm — I’m going home. [Verse 2 – rap with solemn flow] Clubs burned out, monsters slain, But the city’s pulse will rise again. Nyra’s ghost sings in alleyways, Her song a lantern through the haze. Kaelith gone where shadows creep, His loyalty buried six feet deep. The Queen still smiles from a throne unseen, Her crown untouched, her power keen. [Bridge – crooner overlay + orchestral swell] Still I play though the stage is bare, Still I breathe though no one’s there. Exit wound, my soul’s not free, But the song still beats inside of me. [jazz solo – mournful saxophone] [Chorus – extended, cinematic trance] Exit wound, the city sleeps, Every secret the skyline keeps. Courier walks, the rain is gone, But the beat of the night lives on. Exit wound, a final breath, Life survives in the face of death. Neon dim, but I still roam, Courier’s rhythm — I’m going home. [Outro – lo-fi fade, crooner whisper] (City sleeps… rhythm stays…) Courier lives… another day.