[Intro – 68 BPM half-time, drop A, NO PADS, low sub drone + metallic hits, 2 bars silence, DISTANT BUT STILL AGGRESSIVE FRY SCREAM (not soft), slow phrasing]
Sky won’t open
It folds instead
Light doesn’t break
It suffocates
We called it life—
It answered dead
[Verse 1 – palm-muted chugs, DRY AGGRESSIVE MID SCREAM, mix in SHORT STACCATO HITS + DRAGGED END WORDS, no monotone flow]
The ground rejects
Everything we give
Every drop—
Refused to live
We dug the vein
To feel it move
Now nothing bleeds—
It just removes
No hand remains
No voice survives
Just hollow shapes
Pretending life
[Chorus – open chords, steady double kick, GANG CHANT + LEAD SCREAM contrast, HIGHER STRAINED SCREAM on question, LOW GUTTURAL under WE DID THIS, FINAL LINE LONG SUSTAINED SCREAM]
VEINS
RUN
DRY
VEINS
RUN
DRY
Am I dead or alive?
WE
DID
THIS
WE
DID
THIS
NO
WAY
OUT
OF
THIS
[Verse 2 – HEAVIER GROOVE, SWITCH TO LOWER FALSE CORD / GUTTURAL BASE, occasional HIGHER BARK ACCENTS, more rhythmic variation, punch certain words hard]
Teeth in the wire
Tongue split thin
Say it again—
There’s nothing in
Eyes wired open
Don’t see shit
Say it’s alive—
It isn’t alive
Bodies stack
But never fall
No weight left
In them at all
Call it breath
Call it air
Call it anything—
Nothing’s there
[Chorus – BIGGER, layer MID + LOW + slight HIGH SCREAM, stronger gang chant, MORE ATTACK, slight rhythmic push (don’t rush), final line even longer sustain]
VEINS
RUN
DRY
VEINS
RUN
DRY
Am I dead or alive?
WE
DID
THIS
WE
DID
THIS
NO
WAY
OUT
OF
THIS
[Bridge – half-time drop, NO SOFT DELIVERY, START WITH LOW CONTROLLED GUTTURAL, gradually ADD STRAIN + CRACK in voice, end in near-break scream, tension through pacing not volume drop]
I’m still here—
nothing’s inside
I hear my voice—
but it’s wrong
Something took
what I was
It wears me now
Say I’m fine
Say I’m fine
Lie again—
[Breakdown – FULL STOP before hit (0.5–1s silence), LOWEST GUTTURAL + layered MID SCREAM, spaced hits, maximum impact, no cymbal wash]
IT’S
NOT
ME
[Outro – NO CLEANUP, keep AGGRESSIVE but more hollow tone, mid scream with decay, slight distance effect but NOT soft, dragging ends of lines]
Say it lives
Say it breathes
Say it’s more
Than what we see
Say it loud
Say it clean
Say anything—
Make it mean
It doesn’t.