Splitwake
This is a progressive modern metalcore track in a minor key with a mid-tempo pulse, built on unstable clean guitar textures, restrained low-tuned riffs, and a gradually intensifying sense of psychological collapse. The intro starts with unsteady clean guitar, distant reverse swells, and a sparse low pulse before Verse 1 enters with tight muted chugs and dry, controlled vocals. The first pre-chorus widens with nervous snare lifts and rising low-end tension into a short unresolved teaser chorus. Verse 2 grows heavier and more syncopated with darker ambience and sharper phrasing. The bridge strips back to eerie clean guitar and half-time pulse. The breakdown hits with dissonant low-tuned chugs and crushing half-time drums, while the final chorus returns bigger, darker, and more unstable before fading into clean guitar decay and distant harmonics.
Splitwake
This is a progressive modern metalcore track in a minor key with a mid-tempo pulse, built on unstable clean guitar textures, restrained low-tuned riffs, and a gradually intensifying sense of psychological collapse. The intro starts with unsteady clean guitar, distant reverse swells, and a sparse low pulse before Verse 1 enters with tight muted chugs and dry, controlled vocals. The first pre-chorus widens with nervous snare lifts and rising low-end tension into a short unresolved teaser chorus. Verse 2 grows heavier and more syncopated with darker ambience and sharper phrasing. The bridge strips back to eerie clean guitar and half-time pulse. The breakdown hits with dissonant low-tuned chugs and crushing half-time drums, while the final chorus returns bigger, darker, and more unstable before fading into clean guitar decay and distant harmonics.
Lyrics
There’s a moment after waking
Where the noise has not begun
Just the ceiling and the breathing
And the outline of the sun
Then it crawls back through the silence
Like it never really left
Fills the room behind my ribs
And settles heavy in my chest
I hold still
I count the space
Till I can feel it find my face
Every morning starts the same
Quiet mouth, a borrowed name
For a second nothing breaks
Then I fall into the splitwake
The mirror answers half a second
After I’ve already moved
My notes are filled with crossed-out warnings
In a handwriting I never use
I hear my thoughts come back distorted
Like they’re trying on my throat
And every word I say out loud
Feels rehearsed by something else
I know this room
I know this skin
But something else is waking in
Every morning starts the same
Quiet mouth, a borrowed name
For a second nothing breaks
Then I fall into the splitwake
Same room, wrong light, wrong face
Something breathing in my place
If I wake, it wakes with me
And it never lets me leave
There’s a gap before the noise hits
Where I almost feel like mine
Then the pressure starts assembling
Line by line by line by line
Maybe sleep was never sleep
Maybe waking is the lie
Same room
Wrong me
Wake up
Bury me
Every morning starts the same (starts the same)
Quiet mouth, a borrowed name (borrowed name)
For a second nothing breaks
Then I drown inside the splitwake (splitwake)
Same room, wrong light, wrong face (wrong face)
Something wearing me in place (in my place)
If I wake, it wakes with me
And it never lets me leave (lets me leave)