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(Heavy, distorted 808 bass slides drop in, accompanied by a sad, echoing piano loop)

Yeah...

They wanted me broken, right?

But the heart is pitch black.

Listen.

Walking through the shadows in my designer shoes

Got a heart full of scars and nothing left to lose

You see the glitter on my eyelids, think I’m doing fine

But I’ve been drowning every demon with this cheap wine

They talk down on my name just to feel alive

Watch me step on their egos just to survive

I learned to bite my tongue until the blood tastes sweet

Now I’m the queen of the dark, running these cold streets

Used to cry in the back of the limousine

Now I pack the venom in my magazine

Yeah, you thought you knew me from the radio track?

Turn the lights down low, watch the screen go black.

(Melodic, high-pitched vocals with heavy reverb and auto-tune)

Bleeding in the strobe lights, dancing with my ghost

Loving you the hardest was what hurt the most

Cold steel in my hand, velvet on my skin

Tell me where the pain ends and the games begin

(Yeah, tell me where they begin...)

Switch the flow, keep it fast, let the bass bang

I don’t need your fake love, I don’t need your gang

Count my money in the dark, check the revenue

Every bridges that I burned led to someone new

They want the old me, she died in the wintertime

Now I’m killing every beat, committing perfect crime

You were crying on my shoulder, now you hate my face

Left your memories behind, erased without a trace

Got that Italian attitude mixed with the trap

Put my city on the map, never looking back

If you cross my line, better watch your breath

'Cause this love we had was a dance with death.

Bleeding in the strobe lights, dancing with my ghost

Loving you the hardest was what hurt the most

Cold steel in my hand, velvet on my skin

Tell me where the pain ends and the games begin.

(The beat drops out, leaving only a slow, distorted guitar riff and raw, unfiltered vocals)

Look into my eyes, do you see the cracks?

No turning back.

No turning back.

We built a castle out of broken glass...

And watched it ash.

(The heavy 808 bass returns softly, fading out with a ticking clock sound)

Blade and velvet.

That’s all that’s left.

Yeah.

(Whisper) Bye.

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