[Cold Open] [one dry kick every two seconds] [close whisper, left channel] Don’t open that door. [another whisper, right channel] There’s nothing behind it. [deep voice, center] Then explain to me why it’s breathing. [beat enters abruptly] [Section I - Inventory] I have an animal asleep inside my throat. Another sharpens all its teeth against my voice. One keeps running circles behind every thought. Another waits beside my heart without a noise. There’s one that starts laughing when everything collapses. There’s one that disappears whenever truth arrives. One demands that I embrace it. Another begs me to leave it alone. And every one of them wears my name around its neck. [Refrain] Don’t let them out. Don’t let them out. Don’t let them... [distorted vocal interruption] Déjalos. [Instrumental Mutation] [uneven pounding kick pattern] [psychedelic bass spiral] [animal-like synth calls answering each other] [chopped breaths used as percussion] [Section II - Opening] First the cage of anger split apart. Then desire and anxiety broke through. Sadness opened up the door with careful hands. Euphoria came screaming from behind. Fear climbed every light across the ceiling. Tenderness hid underneath the couch. Guilt began to chew apart the furniture. And something I could never recognize learned how to walk. [Vocal Clash] [deep voice] Everything is under control. [high distorted double] Everything is out of control. [deep voice] Everything is under control. [multiple voices] Open them. Lock them. Name them. Feed them. Don’t look at them. Let them out. [shut off multiple voices] [Beat Drop] [heavy kick and sub-bass] [voices panned rapidly across stereo field] [Hook] The inner zoo has no keeper anymore. The inner zoo has learned to speak for me. The inner zoo breaks the bars around the room. And every time I try to enter... Something escapes instead of me. [Section III - Feeding Time] I gave them fear. They wanted more. I gave them memories. They wanted more. I gave them sleepless nights. I gave them names to forget. I gave them everything I had and even more than that. [pause] And they learned how to grow fat. [Half-Time Collapse] [slow distorted bass pulse] [voice extremely close, almost spoken] They were never monsters. They were things I had once felt without a place to keep them in. They never wanted to destroy me. They were simply far too alive to stay imprisoned inside me. [Silence] [distant metallic impact] [Final Release] Let them run. Let them bite. Let them stain the walls. Let them shatter every light. Let them learn to roar. Let them leave one after another. Let them return whenever they choose. Now I know I’m not going insane... I just have too many ways to exist. [Final Hook - layered voices] The inner zoo has no keeper anymore. The inner zoo no longer fits inside of me. The inner zoo breaks the bars around the room. And every time I try to enter... They all pour out in floods from me. [Outro] [voices gradually separating into different stereo positions] Anger. Fear. Desire. Guilt. Tenderness. Euphoria. [one final whisper] No cierres la puerta. [End]
