“Neo-rotting”
female lead, retro futuristic dark electropop, aggressive yet melancholic tone, driving sidechained synthwave drums, distorted analog synth bass, saturated glitch textures, tense minor-key progressions, icy pads with heavy sidechain, sharp percussive transients, layered harmonies with aching dissonance, moody dance-pop pacing, industrial-tinged effects and bitcrushed details, emotionally charged topline with bitter-sweet delivery, looming low-end pressure and haunting atmospheric swells
“Neo-rotting”
female lead, retro futuristic dark electropop, aggressive yet melancholic tone, driving sidechained synthwave drums, distorted analog synth bass, saturated glitch textures, tense minor-key progressions, icy pads with heavy sidechain, sharp percussive transients, layered harmonies with aching dissonance, moody dance-pop pacing, industrial-tinged effects and bitcrushed details, emotionally charged topline with bitter-sweet delivery, looming low-end pressure and haunting atmospheric swells
Lyrics
Pacifier tongue, it's a chromium sucker
Got a USB port where my throat used to stutter
Mommy's tiny lab rat, in a cradle of cables
They replaced my soft spots with financial fables
Got a screen in my iris that plays little ads
For the same synthetic blood that replaced what I had
A silly rainbow band aid on a malignant tumor
They say it’s a feature, I call it a rumor
(Pre-Chorus)
Uh-oh, there’s a glitch in the nursery rhyme
Flesh is so last season, let’s renew the fashion chasm
The medicine tastes like cherry-lime cyanide
Hush now, baby, let the rot crawl inside
(Chorus)
Paper dolls peeling, a candy-coated decay
You can pay for your salvation on a 12-month layaway
It’s a saccharine sickness, a binary cough
Let the metal replace me when my softness falls off
Cradle cap, bubble wrap, pop the pustule and sing
This isn't evolution, it's a glittering sting
(Verse 2)
Dead-eyed dolly with the detachable spine
Trading in her bone marrow for a new valence line
Got a nighttime song looped on a broken chipset
Crying formaldehyde tears that the doctors collect
They sew circuit-board lace onto rotting nerve endings
Such a pretty pretense for the horror they're vending
Your humanity’s a bug, they just patch it with chrome
A dollhouse of rust where the soul used to roam
(Pre-Chorus)
Uh-oh, there’s a glitch in the nursery rhyme
Flesh is so last season, let’s renew the fashion chasm
The medicine tastes like cherry-lime cyanide
Hush now, baby, let the rot crawl inside
(Chorus)
Paper dolls peeling, a candy-coated decay
You can pay for your salvation on a 12-month layaway
It’s a saccharine sickness, a binary cough
Let the metal replace me when my softness falls off
Cradle cap, bubble wrap, pop the pustule and sing
This isn't evolution, it's a glittering sting
(Bridge)
Tick-tock, the plague blooms on the motherboard
They’re auctioning my stem cells, can you afford the cure, sweetheart?
It’s a colony collapse dressed in My Melody pink
Your body’s just a platform, you don’t have to think
Burn the incubator, let the sterile air sting
It’s so sweet, so sweet, the way the nihilism rings
(Outro)
Baby teeth falling out, sockets ready for new plugs
Hug me till my skin splits, I’m the bug in the rug
Toxic, sticky, pretty, sickly
Organic matter’s overrated, isn't it lovely? Tickly.
Just a plague, nothing personal, it's just business
Come and get your upgrade, kiss the abyss, kiss, kiss…