Going sideways
Synth-wave, Industrial Pop, dark electronic, mechanical sounds, elevator muzak samples, claustrophobic production, retrofuturistic, driving beat, eerie corporate aesthetic, liminal space soundtrack, hypnotic and unsettling
Going sideways
Synth-wave, Industrial Pop, dark electronic, mechanical sounds, elevator muzak samples, claustrophobic production, retrofuturistic, driving beat, eerie corporate aesthetic, liminal space soundtrack, hypnotic and unsettling
Lyrics
Intro - Elevator ding, mechanical whirring, synth build
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**[Verse 1]**
Ninth floor, same as every day
Press the button, look away
But something's different, something's wrong
The elevator's moving but not up or down
It's going sideways, sideways
Through the walls, through space
The numbers on the panel start to rearrange
Floor 13.5, Floor -2, Floor "X"
What the hell comes next?
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**[Pre-Chorus]**
I should press emergency
I should get off immediately
But curiosity is a disease
And I need to see, I need to see
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**[Chorus]**
Going sideways, sideways
Into floors that don't exist
Going sideways, sideways
Through the corporate abyss
Fluorescent lights and empty desks
Offices with no egress
Going sideways, sideways
And I can't resist
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**[Verse 2]**
The doors open on a place I've never seen
Same grey carpet, same grey walls, same grey screens
But nobody's there, no sound at all
Just infinite cubicles in an infinite hall
Coffee cups still steaming, papers still warm
Like everyone vanished in the middle of the norm
I step outside, I look around
Then run back in when I hear the sound
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**[Pre-Chorus]**
The doors are closing, now or never
Stay in the strange or safe forever
I jump back in, I press the button
For somewhere even more forgotten
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**[Chorus]**
Going sideways, sideways
Into floors that don't exist
Going sideways, sideways
Through the corporate abyss
Fluorescent lights and empty desks
Offices with no egress
Going sideways, sideways
And I can't resist
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**[Bridge - Mechanical breakdown, glitchy vocals]**
Floor negative infinity
Floor "ERROR"
Floor "VOID"
Floor "RETURN TO SENDER"
I've been riding for hours now
Or has it been days?
Time moves sideways too
In this mechanical maze
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**[Bridge continues - quieter, eerie]**
Then the elevator stops
Complete and total silence
The doors don't open
Just a voice on the intercom:
(robotic voice) "You've reached your destination"
But which one?
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**[Final Chorus - desperate energy]**
Still going sideways, sideways
Through dimensions in between
Still going sideways, sideways
Places that should never be seen
I'm pressing every button now
Trying to find my way back out
Going sideways, sideways
Is there any way back down?
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Outro - elevator music playing, distorted and wrong
(spoken, tired) Maybe I was never
On the ninth floor
Maybe I've been sideways
All along
(whispered) Ding
(whispered) Doors opening
(whispered) Floor...
End - elevator ding echoes into silence