CELL

*[Intro — spoken, cold and detached]*
"Strange game... Only winning move is not to play."

*[Verse 1 — rap, pulsing flow]*
Look at you, trembling in your own skin,
Building a prison and calling it a win,
You loop the same thought like a chain round your throat,
Drowning in a body that you built like a boat with no oar.
Every heartbeat is a knock on the door,
But you don't answer, you just bleed on the floor,
You call it "surviving," I call it decay,
You're the warden and the prisoner in the same cage.

*[Pre-Chorus — female vocal, arrogant/judgmental]*
Oh, how pathetic, how painfully small,
You designed these walls, now you cry when they fall.
You wanted control, so you built yourself blind —
Welcome to the cell of your own mind.

*[Chorus — aggressive rap-core, pulsing/angry]*
CELL — lock it, drop it, feel it close in,
CELL — you're the crime and you're the sin,
CELL — no key, no god, no friend,
CELL — this is how it starts, this is how it ends.
Heart is a hostage, mind's the guard,
Body's the sentence you can't discard,
CELL — CELL — scream if you want,
No one's coming, no one's coming, no one's coming.

*[Verse 2 — heavier, metalcore breakdown feel]*
You prayed for freedom while you turned the lock,
Fed your own fear till it grew like rot,
Every mirror is a witness to your crime,
Every second is a bar in your own lifetime.
You call it fate, I call it design,
You wrote this sentence line by line,
No judge, no jury, no one to blame,
You're both the killer and the victim's name.

*[Bridge — female vocal, cold, cutting]*
Such a shame... such a waste...
You had the key the whole time in your face.
But you like it in here, don't you? Safe in the dark,
Where nothing can touch you, where nothing can start.

*[Final Chorus — full aggression, layered rap/scream]*
CELL — lock it, drop it, feel it close in,
CELL — you're the crime and you're the sin,
CELL — no key, no god, no friend,
CELL — this is how it starts, this is how it ends.
Heart is a hostage, mind's the guard,
Body's the sentence you can't discard,
CELL — CELL — scream if you want,
No one's coming, no one's coming, no one's coming.

*[Outro — spoken, echoing]*
"Strange game...
Only winning move is not to play."
*(fades into static and heartbeat)*