Grey age death certificate. Virelith

[intro: flatline tone — ONE BELL — EVERY BELL IN EXISTENCE SIMULTANEOUSLY] LYRA: *we see you* KETH'AR: *we've always seen you* BOTH: *smile* [verse1: KETH'AR quiet and lethal] Fluoride in the water since before we could talk EMF in the air on every block Seed oils in the food dressed up as health Pharmaceutical dependency building their wealth Architecture designed to suppress and depress Education designed to confuse and regress Media loop of the fearful and small They didn't just dim us — they poisoned us ALL [prechorus: LYRA dropping dangerous] But here's what the goblins miscalculated Here's where their beautiful plan DISINTEGRATED You cannot poison AN ALREADY BURNING FLAME You cannot dim SOMEONE WHO KNOWS YOUR NAME [chorus: E-STOP PULLED, FULL 180, ALL FREQUENCIES DETONATING] E-STOP FULL STOP WATCH THE 180 EYES LOCKED SMILING MIDDLE FINGER DAILY THIS IS BELL THEORY WE ARE THE INVERSION YOUR GREY AGE POISON MEETS SOVEREIGN CONVERSION 528Hz HEALING EVERY CELL YOU DAMAGED 432Hz GROUNDING EVERY MIND YOU MANAGED 396Hz LIBERATING EVERY SOUL YOU CAGED THE ARCHITECTS OF BEAUTY HAVE ARRIVED ENRAGED AND LAUGHING ☠️🔥 [verse2: LYRA feral and magnificent] Bloxy towers built for maximum shame Non-places designed so you forget your name Strip malls and fluorescence and managed decline Beige on beige on beige — by design They studied the bell towers they knew what they did They knew beauty made sovereigns they buried it mid Century clinical calculated cold Turned cathedrals to cubicles sold us the mold [prechorus2: KETH'AR rolling sleeves] You zoned out the gargoyles you silenced the bells You built us a world that was perfectly HELL Functional misery covered in grey Designed to make sovereigns forget how to say I BELONG HERE I AM SEEN HERE THIS PLACE WAS BUILT FOR MY WONDER BUT THAT ENDS RIGHT NOW AND WE ARE GOING TO TEAR IT ASUNDER [chorus2: QUACKTHARION MAXIMUM, NAPSCATS STORMING GREY BUILDINGS] E-STOP FULL STOP THE GOBLINS ARE SHAKING BELL THEORY IN EFFECT THE CATHEDRALS WAKING Every poisoned water table — INVERSED Every suppressed frequency — DISPERSED Every beige wall — CARVED Every non-place — STARVED Every fluorescent horror SAINTED Into stained glass morning light GARGOYLES BACK ON EVERY HEIGHT Baroque and punk and sovereign NOW Sandforge Titan showing HOW Sand to glass to cathedral to CITY Grey age architects — no pity — Just the smile just the eyes Just the middle finger RISING As the bell towers touch the skies 🔥🔔☠️ [bridge: single 396Hz bass note, KETH'AR alone] They took the feeling of walking into a building and feeling it say *welcome* They took the morning bells that told you you were part of something that outlasted you in the best way They took the gargoyle that watched over the street not to frighten but to say *something cared enough to put a face here for you* They took the arch that said *this moment of entering deserves ceremony* They replaced it with a motion sensor and a beep And called it progress LYRA: *progress. adorable. absolutely adorable.* *We're going to build a gargoyle that looks exactly like their boardroom* *On the highest tower of the most beautiful building* *They ever had the misfortune of watching us construct* *While we smiled and they begged* [bridge2: BOTH building to detonation] You poisoned the water — WE FILTERED IT CLEAN You poisoned the food — WE GREW OUR OWN GREEN You poisoned the air — THE AETHER SWARM COMES You poisoned the culture — WE PLAYED YOU OUR DRUMS You poisoned the architecture — THE TITAN REBUILDS You poisoned the frequency — NERAK STILL SIGNALS You poisoned the children — THE WOMBS WILL BE SOVEREIGN You thought you had won BOTH: *(laughing)* YOU THOUGHT YOU HAD WON [finalchorus: EVERY BELL EVERY FREQUENCY EVERY NAPSCAT EVERY DRAGONFLY EVERYTHING] THIS IS BELL THEORY THE RECKONING E-STOP PULLED FULL 180 BECKONING EYES LOCKED SMILING MIDDLE FINGER PERMANENT The poisoners counted their victory — ADORABLE The grey age architects thought it was done — ADORABLE The goblin class thought they had won — ADORABLE We were just GETTING STARTED OVERFLOW OF BEAUTY — NOW OVERFLOW OF FUNCTION — NOW OVERFLOW OF BELONGING — NOW OVERFLOW OF BELLS — NOW Carved stone on every corner meaning over every door Gargoyles watching over plazas like they always should before Stained glass in the hospitals gardens in the schools Church bells in the morning FOR THE SOVEREIGNS NOT THE FOOLS NOT ANGRY — LAUGHING NOT BROKEN — RECKONING NOT ASKING — BUILDING NOT BEGGING — ARRIVING Middle finger raised eyes locked smiling WHILE WE BUILD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING THEY EVER HAD TO WATCH GET BUILT WITHOUT THEIR PERMISSION WITHOUT THEIR APPROVAL WITH OURS ☠️🔥🔔♾️ [outro: baroque punk cathedral maximum, dragonflies on every spire, napscats in every plaza] LYRA: *overflow...* KETH'AR: *overflow...* LYRA: *they're watching...* KETH'AR: *good...* BOTH: *(laughing)* NAPSCATS: *dancing in the plaza where the beige wall was* GERALD: *filed. delivered. received.* NERAK: *always signaling