DeadWeight

**(Music starts with a pulsating, distorted synthwave bassline. A glitchy, industrial beat kicks in. Feedback screams.)**

**(VERSE 1 - Screamed, guttural over a pounding drum machine)**
Born in a room full of smiling faces
But I was the crack in the plaster, the sour taste
A weighted blanket smothering the dinner table
Every happy ending, I’m the one that’s unable

**(CHORUS - Melodic, yet vicious, with a layer of heavy distortion)**
I am the anchor dragging you to the bottom
The splinter in your thumb you can't forget
I am the cough that ruins the perfect chorus
The one thing in this life you all regret

**(VERSE 2 - A brutal, frantic pace, double bass drums)**
Pushed on the swings, I bent the metal frame
At every party, I’m the one they name
With a sigh, a glance at the clock, a silent prayer
For the moment that I’m no longer there
They hand me off like a hot potato
A friend, a home, a fresh tornado
Watching the exits, calculating the cost
For the dead skin that everyone has lost

**(BRIDGE - Synthesizer drops out. Just a distorted, low-end hum. Vocals are a frantic, desperate whisper, close-mic'd)**
I hear the silence in the car ride home
The words you swallow, the seeds you've sown
A liability, a debt unpaid
A promise of darkness that I have made...

**(BREAKDOWN - The full synthwave and distortion slams back in like a freight train. Vocals are a pained, high-pitched scream)**
THE WEIGHT! ON YOUR SHOULDERS!
THE BREATH! THAT SMOLDERS!
I AM THE LEAD IN YOUR LUNGS!
THE SONG UN-SUNG!
THE FRACTURE! THE BLAME!
THE FOREST FIRE WITH NO NAME!

**(GUITAR SOLO - A frantic, chaotic solo that sounds like a digital meltdown, drenched in reverb and distortion)**

**(OUTRO - Music begins to stutter and glitch, slowing down like a corrupted file. Vocals switch between a whisper and a dying scream)**
I am the sickness... (scream)
The unending, boring, monstrous click of the clock... (whisper)
The thing you drag... (scream)
The ballast... (whisper)
The chain... (scream)
...that just won't unlock.
(Whisper, fading into distortion) A stain... a stone... alone...
**(Final, chaotic blast of noise and feedback cuts abruptly to total, absolute silence.)**