Bats in my Belly
Dark romantic gothic waltz with recurring eerie music box melody throughout the song. Begins with delicate music box intro and soft cinematic piano before building into a yearning ballroom waltz. Mid-song introduces subtle stuttering electronic pulses and glitchy rhythmic tension before transforming into a passionate tango-inspired rhythm with dramatic strings, upright bass, emotional percussion, and sweeping dance energy. Emotional vocals with massive cinematic choruses designed for screaming in the car. Music should feel like lovers circling through an abandoned ballroom at night. Elegant, haunting, emotional, danceable, and obsessive. The music box theme should continue subtly through the entire song and slowly deteriorate and fade at the ending like it’s dying. NOT metal, NOT EDM, NOT cabaret parody, NOT aggressive rock. Romantic, cinematic, hypnotic, emotionally devastating.
Bats in my Belly
Dark romantic gothic waltz with recurring eerie music box melody throughout the song. Begins with delicate music box intro and soft cinematic piano before building into a yearning ballroom waltz. Mid-song introduces subtle stuttering electronic pulses and glitchy rhythmic tension before transforming into a passionate tango-inspired rhythm with dramatic strings, upright bass, emotional percussion, and sweeping dance energy. Emotional vocals with massive cinematic choruses designed for screaming in the car. Music should feel like lovers circling through an abandoned ballroom at night. Elegant, haunting, emotional, danceable, and obsessive. The music box theme should continue subtly through the entire song and slowly deteriorate and fade at the ending like it’s dying. NOT metal, NOT EDM, NOT cabaret parody, NOT aggressive rock. Romantic, cinematic, hypnotic, emotionally devastating.
Lyrics
You walked in dressed like midnight rain,
Black lace gloves and silver chains,
Lipstick stained like dying roses,
Pretty lies and bad diagnoses.
Your laugh crawled underneath my skin,
Like trouble asking to come in,
Everybody warned me “run”—
God, I hope you’re the fatal one.
[Pre-Chorus]
No butterflies when you kiss me, babe,
Just black-winged things I cannot tame,
They claw my ribs and bare their teeth,
And make a mausoleum out of me.
[Chorus]
I got bats in my belly, rats in the walls,
Your name in the mirror when the dark night falls,
We dance like sinners in cathedral light,
Laughing while we’re ruining our lives.
Oh-oh—
Love me like a curse tattooed in black,
Hold me so tight that I can’t fight back,
If heaven won’t take us, hell’s where we’ll be—
You and your chaos crawling through me.
[Verse 2]
[Female]
Your heartbeat sounds like funeral drums,
Like every bad decision rolled in one,
And I should hate the way you grin
Like breaking hearts is medicine.
But every night becomes a blur,
Sharp-eyed smiles and reckless words,
You held me close while the record swayed
Like we were born to misbehave.
[Pre-Chorus]
No angels singing overhead,
Just old ghosts rattling in my chest,
You touch my throat and suddenly
Even dying sounds romantic to me.
[BIG CHORUS]
I got bats in my belly, rats in the walls,
Your shadow dancing down abandoned halls,
We move like lightning through the cemetery,
Young, obsessive, loud, and legendary.
Oh-oh—
[Female]
Kiss me with your venom-colored grin,
Drag me deeper, let the darkness in,
If loving you’s a beautiful disease,
Then bury me beside your heartbeat please.
[Bridge]
But every night becomes a blur,
Sharp-eyed smiles and reckless words,
You held me close while the record swayed
Like we were born to misbehave.
[Final Chorus]
[Children's Choir]
Bats in my belly, rats in the walls,
[Female] Still hear your laughter when the nightbird calls,
Bats in my belly, rats in the walls
And if we crash beneath the moonlit sky—
Bats in my belly, rats in the walls
[Male] At least we burned alive.
[male and female]
No rainbows, no butterflies for me,
Just dark wings beating underneath,
And honestly, darling, I think that’s sweet.